Fred Hampton Quotes
I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.
Quotes to Explore
-
It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
-
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
-
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
-
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
-
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
-
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
-
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
-
I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
-
My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.
-
I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
-
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
-
I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
-
We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
-
I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.
-
I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
-
Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
-
If I could do what Hilary Mantel does, I would probably do that. She is more intelligent and a better researcher and knows more what she's about than I do.
-
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
-
When discussing the rise and fall of empires, it is well to mark closely their rate of growth, avoiding the temptation to telescope time and discover too early signs of greatness in a state which we know will one day be great, or to predict too early the collapse of an empire which we know will one day cease to be. The life-span of empires cannot be plotted by events, only by careful diagnosis and ausculation--and as in medicine there is always room for error.
-
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
-
There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.
-
As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
-
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
-
I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.
