Dora Russell Quotes

Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

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• The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Time
  • God
  • Person

• I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Like
  • Reach

• I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Rose

• We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Everyday

• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Good
  • Great
  • Sound

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Book
  • Day
  • Grateful

• You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Great
  • Words
  • Voice

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Book
  • Hate
  • Enough

• My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • World
  • School
  • House

• I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Trying
  • Grow
  • Buttons

• May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Leader
  • Prison
  • Propaganda

• I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Live
  • Day

• The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Lawyer
  • Rule

• I approach music and acting the same way, through spontaneous improvisation. I never really try to rehearse anything, do it over and over, except when we're inside a take.

  

  Matt Schulze
  • Music

• In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • Taken

• If you attach yourself to gross energies - loving this person, hating that clan, rejecting one experience or habitually indulging in another - then you will lead a series of heavy, attached lives. This can go on for a very long and tedious time.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Experience
  • Lives
  • Energies

• I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn't everybody?

  

  Anouska Hempel
  • Up
  • Why
  • Morning

• Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.

  

  Dora Russell
  • People
  • Up
  • Action