Freddy Fender Quotes

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

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• I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Time
  • Live
  • War

• I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.

  

  Sam Claflin
  • Want
  • Deep
  • End

• Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Depression

• It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • American
  • Think
  • Fall

• If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Me
  • Politics
  • Fly

• If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

  

  Karen Black
  • Believe
  • America
  • Sorry

• There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Actions
  • Without
  • Protest

• It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Great
  • Real
  • Wish

• Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Beautiful
  • Question
  • Always

• I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Women
  • Family
  • Drama

• We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Chaos

• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Mother
  • Sins
  • Beware

• There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Great
  • Money
  • Man

• I grew up pretty much with nothing.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Nothing

• Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Wall

• Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• On 'Glee,' we often tackle the tough topics that young people face - in fact, my recurring character, Wade 'Unique' Adams, is a transgender teenager who finds herself navigating a lot of the same problems many young people face around the globe.

  

  Alex Newell
  • People
  • Character
  • Unique

• I'm always telling young designers to take the time to surround themselves with women.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • Time
  • Women

• Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

  

  David Riesman
  • Men
  • Science
  • Culture

• Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Technology
  • Magic
  • Bubbles

• I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

  

  Freddy Fender
  • Good
  • Believe