John Bright Quotes

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

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• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Couple
  • Places
  • Australia

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Great
  • Mother

• In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Words
  • Star
  • Never

• I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Write
  • Writer
  • Fiction

• I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Always
  • Confident
  • Maybe

• A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Health
  • Care
  • Insurance

• Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Happy

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Win
  • Guilty
  • Will

• My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• I think I fall into a lot of cracks in terms of I'm too something. I'm too this, I'm too that. And my music has never really had a home. I've been this floating alternative. I'm too mainstream for alternative. I'm too alternative for mainstream. And I'm just kind of wandering.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Music
  • Home
  • Think

• When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• I work with Ninja, Ninja works with me.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Work
  • Me
  • Ninja

• The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the music breathing from her face, 19The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,- And oh, that eye was in itself a soul!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Heart

• For one thing, you need a lot of self-confidence to be on the top of your field. There are times probably where I appear to be over-confident or arrogant. It's really in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Confidence

• Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

  

  James Hillman
  • Door
  • Depression

• I would love to get in trouble with the Catholic Church. I'm not religious myself, but my issue is with the organization. It's an organization of men - it's not about faith.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Men
  • Faith
  • Church

• Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Catholic

• I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.

  

  Sean Hannity
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Christian

• Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect.

  

  Richard Morris
  • Music
  • Catholic
  • Program

• I'm a really big fan of facial hair.

  

  Anderson East
  • Hair

• As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

  

  John Bright
  • Catholic