Ann Dunham Quotes

#1. Barack Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, had quite an interesting life, shot through with coincidences. Stanley Ann was some mom
and by 'some mom,' it's meant that she was a globetrotting, oil-rep-marrying, CIA-front-employed, twelve-language-speaking, International Mom of Mystery.

Mondo Frazier

#2. Emilio Estevez was definitely my first love.

Demi Moore

#3. Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

Honore De Balzac

#4. I think, in general, it's better not to respond to reviews of your work.

Nell Freudenberger

#5. The American head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a mother on postage stamps. Is that a contrast that fills you with pride?

Johann Hari

#6. Football is like war. It's about taking territory.

Condoleezza Rice

#7. Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for, like, a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.

Steve Buscemi

#8. V-Day ... if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for "your loved one" I think it's quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It's all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

Jess C. Scott

#9. Music is a powerful way for people to express themselves

Nina LaCour

#10. A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.

Ann Dunham

#11. I cannot wait to go get my fried butter on a stick, and fried cheesecake on a stick and ... Twinkies, especially in honor of those who would rather just be forced to eat our peas.

Sarah Palin

#12. The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

Chris Van Hollen

#13. If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don't carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

Phillip C. McGraw

#14. We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company ...

Nan Fairbrother

#15. Eliminate the mindset of can't! Because you can do anything!

Tony Horton

#16. See you on the astral

Brandt Legg

#17. You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him?

Ann Dunham

#18. Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Coco Chanel