Emiliano Zapata Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Platinum for me signifies everlasting love, which needs to be celebrated in the most special way.
-
Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
-
I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
-
Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.
-
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
-
We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
-
I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
-
But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
-
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
-
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
-
There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
-
I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
-
America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
-
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
-
We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
-
When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
-
The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
-
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling.
-
All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff.
-
I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truthful as I can make them.
-
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
-
I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.
