Dennis Banks Quotes

That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?

Dennis Banks

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• What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Freedom
  • Attention
  • Holocaust

• At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Lost
  • Present
  • Moment

• Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

  

  Paracelsus
  • May
  • Inspiration
  • Dreams

• That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Great
  • Never
  • Secrets

• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Nature
  • Pain
  • Human Nature

• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Everything
  • Lose

• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Money
  • More
  • Ever

• I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Home
  • Hurt
  • Daughter

• I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Change
  • Accept
  • Willing

• Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Difference

• The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

  

  Earl Long
  • Good
  • Know
  • Kind

• It's great living with your best friends.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Best

• My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It's something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.

  

  Geddy Lee Weinrib Rush
  • Control
  • Simple

• Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.

  

  Danny Elfman
  • Up
  • Music
  • Movie

• For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Reason

• It's when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It's always beyond what you've ever done.

  

  Bruce Wilkinson
  • Done
  • Dream

• Somebody who really inspired me to wanna start writing songs is The-Dream, so if The-Dream was to hit me up and be like, 'Yo you wanna do this?,' I'd be all for it. I would love that, actually.

  

  Bryson Tiller
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Dream

• That's what I'm doing. I'm trying to follow what I want to do as my dream. How do I become independent from everybody else?

  

  Dennis Banks
  • Trying
  • Dream
  • Independent