Paulo Freire Quotes

At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.

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• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Want
  • Wish
  • Irish

• I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Way
  • Dog
  • Wrong

• In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Work
  • Humanity

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Girl
  • Dark
  • Years

• 'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Heart
  • Creation
  • Closest

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Strength
  • Graceful
  • Elves

• I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • World
  • Real
  • War

• Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Help
  • Man
  • Brave

• I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • World
  • Free
  • Wish

• Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Build
  • Reputation
  • Lawyers

• I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Science

• If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Love
  • Player
  • Numbers

• South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • Great
  • Government
  • Values

• I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Energy

• Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Different
  • Business

• Talent comes with an individual name tag.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Talent
  • Tag

• The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them; before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach. And oh, the cry of the seagulls! Have you ever heard it? Can you remember?

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.

  

  Caroline Leavitt
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Hope

• I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • World
  • Old
  • Jazz

• At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life. Sharing this way of life becomes an overpowering aspiration.

  

  Paulo Freire
  • Life
  • Experience