Big Sean (Sean Michael Leonard Anderson) Quotes

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

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• Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Experience
  • Morning
  • Again

• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Authority
  • Separate

• The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Joy

• I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Thoughts

• I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Literature

• If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Constitution
  • Short
  • Obscure

• You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Parents
  • Will
  • Utterly

• I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Evening

• It's the 21st century. It's untenable to suggest that women had no significance and no interest and that just because they didn't vote they had no relevance to the course of our history.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Women
  • History
  • Vote

• God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • World
  • Work
  • God

• Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Power
  • Virtue
  • Take

• I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Technology

• My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Happy
  • Career
  • Beginning

• It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • God
  • Sense
  • Without

• Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Money
  • Desk

• Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Love
  • Values
  • For Her

• I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Guide
  • Once
  • Tour

• When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Wish
  • Study

• As the ACE study has shown, child abuse and neglect is the single most preventable cause of mental illness, the single most common cause of drug and alcohol abuse, and a significant contributor to leading causes of death such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, stroke, and suicide.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Death
  • Child
  • Drug

• I entered the acting world at a time when there was a higher demand for Middle Eastern actors in the post-9/11 world, and yeah, the roles weren't great.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Country
  • Professional

• For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

  

  Big Sean