Jane Elliot Quotes

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• I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Different
  • Real
  • Peace

• What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Life
  • Art
  • Subversive

• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Reality
  • Never
  • Plans

• We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.

  

  A. James Clark
  • People
  • Good
  • Opportunities

• I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Right
  • Said
  • Yes

• At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Grow
  • Flame

• Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Like
  • Queen
  • Elizabeth

• The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Done
  • Job
  • Effort

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Job
  • History

• Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • High
  • You
  • Brain

• If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Mother
  • Father
  • House

• Dancing in Tijuana when I was 13 — that was my 'summer camp.' How else do you think I could keep up with Fred Astaire when I was 19?

  

  Rita Hayworth
  • Think
  • Dancing
  • Summer Camp

• My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me, probably more than I realised.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Dad
  • Impact
  • Died

• I tried eHarmony, because I liked the white hair and glasses of that guy on the commercials, and his manner was gentle, but eHarmony told me that the system and it's twenty nine levels of compatibility couldn't find anyone for me. That hurt my feelings.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • Tried
  • Commercials
  • EHarmony

• Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Know
  • For Her

• I love playing smart and tough and having funny lines.

  

  Jane Elliot
  • Love
  • Playing
  • Funny lines