John Perkins Quotes

Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.

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• The British have always made terrible parents.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Parents
  • Always
  • British

• I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • People
  • High
  • Hair

• I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Music
  • Think
  • Questions

• Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Words
  • Language
  • Matter

• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Moment
  • Page
  • Prepare

• It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Focus
  • Training
  • Fighter

• And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Political
  • Vote
  • Become

• If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Life
  • Women
  • Education

• I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Wife
  • Road
  • Stupid

• In spite of all temptations of belonging to many nations, I've remained an Indian.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Nations
  • Many
  • Belonging

• In South Florida, where there are so many beneficiaries, when Social Security isn't adjusted to reflect their increased costs, that affects their daily lives and their contributions to our local economy.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Daily
  • Security
  • Reflect

• I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Country
  • Remember
  • You

• I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Bad
  • Childhood
  • Dog

• Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • American
  • History

• When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Emotional

• It is not natural or inevitable that half the world goes hungry; that the freedom of markets trumps protection of the planet; or that citizens' rights come second to those of corporations.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Protection

• Stood for his country’s glory fast,And nail’d her colours to the mast!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Country

• I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Work
  • Money
  • Deep

• There's something about a sign-off that seems predictable. I just say whatever comes to my mind, to the pleasure and horror of the control room, I'm sure.

  

  David Muir
  • Mind
  • Control

• Some of the key components, we wanted it to be so far into the future that you weren't talking about our time. I was joking that the AMC cinematic universe is after the zombie apocalypse by hundreds and hundreds of years.

  

  Alfred Gough
  • Years
  • Talking
  • Key

• A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Truth

• My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told the only limitations I would ever face were those I placed upon myself.

  

  Dionne Warwick
  • Life
  • Parents

• Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.

  

  John Perkins