Joel A. Barker Quotes
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.Joel A. Barker
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
Gallant -
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
Hans Blix -
I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
Vic Tayback -
If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
Page McConnell -
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
Vin Diesel -
I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole -
I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
Harold Ramis -
Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I never felt like I had a mother.
Quincy Jones -
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
Walter Pater
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
Nate Powell -
Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
Edmund White -
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
Rand Paul -
One-sided national economic triumphs cannot be achieved in the increasingly interwoven global economy without precipitating calamitous consequences for everyone.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I have a few homes, and Los Angeles is certainly one of them.
Zubin Mehta -
Events are not a matter of chance.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
Wen Jiabao -
In a world that keeps on pushing me around, I'm gonna stand my ground, and I won't back down.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.
Jim Crace -
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
Johnny Depp -
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
Joel A. Barker