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

• I have lesbian impulses, so I understand how a man looks at a woman. … When I was growing up, it wasn't possible for me to do anything about my attraction to women. Lesbianism didn't exist in that time, as far as I knew.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• Everything's always got to be character-based. We know we can't, if we're sitting in the editing room, watch the sequence for more than 20 seconds without a character having a point of view or moving the action forward; my brain just shuts down, or I start thinking about my laundry.

  

  Anthony Russo
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Action

• If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Understand

• Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she Nature abandon to cries and lamentations.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • She
  • Nature
  • Earth

• My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

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

  

  Keith Ellison
  • Fierce