Keith Ellison Quotes

I have always been a fierce fighter against anti-Semitism. I oppose it and always have.

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• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Violence

• I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Glamourous

• Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • World
  • Universe

• Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Thinking

• Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Law
  • Heaven
  • Poetry

• 'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Attitude

• If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask me to make profits in ways that I have to change my allure, I won't do that. I won't lose my identity.

  

  Brunello Cucinelli
  • Hope
  • Identity

• After a long time with someone, you realise you've been thinking for two.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• I've grown up a little bit. I'm almost 40 years old now. But everyone was introduced to me when I was 18 and I looked like I was 15. I've been around a long time.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Africa is really a place for the wealthy traveler. It's got some nice hotels, but they're very expensive hotels. It doesn't really cater to the backpacker or to the overland traveler.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Nice

• Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

  

  Mary Astell
  • Women
  • Wise

• In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge. I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Real
  • Learning
  • Singing

• I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Life
  • Real
  • Technology

• Not all teammates tell the truth.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Truth

• These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

  

  Edward Bennett Williams

• Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Soul

• Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Leadership
  • Leader

• And I've always believed in what Martin Luther King, Jr. called 'the fierce urgency of now' - we should not fear change, we should embrace it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fear
  • King
  • Fierce

• Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'

  

  Bharati Mukherjee
  • World
  • Culture
  • City

• I am a fierce patriot, and I try to be outspoken about my beliefs.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Fierce

• Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• I have always been a fierce fighter against anti-Semitism. I oppose it and always have.

  

  Keith Ellison
  • Fierce