Che Guevara Quotes
The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
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I thought there was a chance right from the beginning.
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Fish have got to swim. Birds have got to fly, and Clintons have to run for office. It's what they do. It's a metabolic urge. That's all they've done their entire life is borrow money from rich people to seek public office.
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To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves.
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Conflict resolution, all those things, are important. When you're in a group environment, you have to have those. If you don't, things fester. Have the conversation. Resolve it. Move forward.
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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
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The ultimate and most important revolutionary aspiration: to see human beings liberated from their alienation.
