Kwame Nkrumah Quotes

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

Kwame Nkrumah

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• I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Tired
  • Administration

• And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Safety
  • Then
  • Public Schools

• Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Friends
  • Father

• Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • War
  • Lost
  • Pain

• There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Roles

• Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Soul
  • Dreams
  • Window

• We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Stop
  • Christian
  • Going

• While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • American
  • War
  • Soldiers

• The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Song
  • Sea

• I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Day
  • Myself

• No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Christian
  • Civilization

• Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Force
  • Jazz

• My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Music
  • Romantic
  • Shines

• I never expected to make a lot of money from music.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Money
  • Never

• Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Education

• My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Parents
  • Teachers
  • Both

• Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Ideas
  • Progress
  • Innovation

• I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Write
  • First

• My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.

  

  Hank Stuever
  • People
  • Television
  • Baltimore

• The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Pain
  • Football
  • Season

• There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?'

  

  Louis C. K.
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Hate

• If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

  

  Alan Dundes
  • She
  • Library

• We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

  

  Kwame Nkrumah