Donald Sultan Quotes

The oppressed becomes the oppressor. Look at Russia, it’s heading back to Stalin.

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• I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Fashion
  • Model
  • Week

• I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Future
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• Speaking is physically difficult for me.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Me
  • Difficult
  • Speaking

• I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  

  B. B. King
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Night

• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Circumstances
  • Rule
  • Within

• The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • True
  • New York

• Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Death
  • Day
  • Daily

• And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Man
  • Balance
  • Fate

• Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Bad
  • Idea
  • California

• He gained some good experience in the Super 12 this year and for the Australian Under-21s in Argentina. He is a strong runner and physically equipped to play Test rugby.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Strong

• We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Players
  • Coaches

• I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Help
  • Helping
  • Failing

• In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see men flying- but how is it done? I can't even begin to wonder. So my belief in magic returns.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Men
  • Done
  • Wonder

• I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Gold
  • Silver
  • Candle

• It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

  

  Euripides
  • Friendship
  • Adversity
  • Finds

• It is you who makes me see what I really am.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Myself

• The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe.

  

  Avro Manhattan
  • Power
  • Property
  • Catholic Church

• Bad criticism recites rote arguments. The shame of rote arguments isn't just that they're cliches, though they are, but that they tend to hide from us why a critic is actually thinking what they're thinking.

  

  Michelle Dean
  • Thinking
  • Criticism
  • Argument

• The oppressed becomes the oppressor. Look at Russia, it’s heading back to Stalin.

  

  Donald Sultan
  • Russia
  • Oppressed
  • Stalin