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

• We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Need
  • Fact
  • Russia

• But then the Nazis arrested Uncle Richard and Aunt Roszi too. They spent six weeks in prison. To get out, they gave the Nazis everything they possessed: real estate, bank accounts, bonds, dishes, silver. Then they left immediately, heading east. Russia swallowed them. My mother waited and prayed for word of them, but none came.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Prison
  • Russia
  • My Mother

• Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Women
  • Parents
  • Culture

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

  

  Donald Sultan
  • Russia
  • Oppressed
  • Stalin