Derek Jarman Quotes
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
-
When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.
-
Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
-
To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
-
In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
-
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
-
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
-
As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
-
I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
-
Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
-
You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
-
I am not afraid to go to jail.
-
Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
-
The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
-
I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
-
Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
-
One way to quantify the immigrant contribution to the overall economy is to measure their share of the U.S. economic output. One such examination for the years 2009-2011 found that immigrants contributed 14.7 percent of the total economic output.
-
Opinion considers the opposition of what is true and false quite rigid, and, confronted with a philosophical system, it expects agreement or contradiction. And in an explanation of such a system, opinion still expects to find one or the other.
-
When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.
-
I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.
-
Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.
-
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
