Charles Farrar Browne Quotes

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

Charles Farrar Browne

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• What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Important
  • Me
  • Vote

• I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Language

• If you're a sponsor, and you're doing business globally, to bring your guests to South Florida is pretty nice.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistake

• Ill give you a definite maybe.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Give
  • Maybe

• I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Real
  • Speak
  • I Can

• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Rap

• In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Been
  • Supermodel

• Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Teach

• I am delighted to be joining 'Guardian U.S.'s team as a weekly columnist, and to have the chance to address American and global current events on its distinguished platform. 'Guardian U.S.' brings the 'Guardian's hard-hitting investigative brand to a new focus on American news and opinion.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • American
  • Team
  • Focus

• The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • King
  • White

• But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • Great
  • Long
  • May

• There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Chinese

• I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.

  

  Wayne White
  • Country
  • Children
  • Done

• So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Song

• I suppose I am interested in women plus anonymity plus disappearance.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Women
  • Anonymity
  • Disappearance

• I wasn't surprised to find Samsung's OLED screen to be bright, vivid, and clear. It's beautiful, although in viewing some photos and videos, I found, as I have in the past, that - to my eye, at least - Samsung tends to oversaturate colors.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Beautiful
  • Past
  • Colors

• The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate the hazardous terrain of interlocking patents. Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Alone
  • Technology

• All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Different
  • Forget
  • Directors

• War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture of landmines. Art has to take a wider view. The problems of Ireland are my problems, too.

  

  Haris Pasovic
  • War
  • Problems
  • Human Rights

• I'm always in these situations where I forget to separate what is pitched as an idea to the fact that I'm actually going to have to execute it.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Forget
  • Situation
  • Facts

• Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Important
  • Words
  • Style

• The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

  

  Charles Farrar Browne