John Pilger Quotes

On the September 11 attacks: 'In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.'

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• Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Buddha

• My couch is made of cat's hair. The cushions have been obscured, and it's made of salt-and-pepper fur. I can't have visitors. I can't ask people to sit on that couch because they become implicated in the furriness of it, and they're walking around, and it's not fair to people.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • People
  • Hair
  • Walking

• Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • People
  • Religious
  • Beliefs

• Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • People
  • Country
  • Odds

• Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Real
  • Golf

• I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Truth
  • Literature
  • Economics

• I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Life
  • Science
  • Look

• I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they - there's not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There's a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they'll listen because it's lonely out here.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • People
  • Voice
  • Lonely

• Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • People
  • Lifestyle
  • Finding

• A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Movie
  • Know

• You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Florida Supreme Court relied on new law to resolve the election dispute down there.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Law
  • Election

• There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • People
  • Today
  • Conflict

• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Truth

• I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Home

• People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Young
  • Opportunities

• In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • America
  • Movie
  • Way

• We stand here today as nothing more than a representative of the millions of our people who dared to rise up against a social system whose very essence is war, violence, racism, oppression, repression and the impoverishment of an entire people.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • People
  • Up
  • War

• The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Perfect
  • Sports
  • Knows

• I have a smile 24/7.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Smile

• Caste, religion, the political system, the economic system - all are helping the bonded labor owners … I believe in Gandhi’s philosophy of the last man, that is, the bonded laborer is the last man in Indian society, that we are here to liberate the last man.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Political

• When I was younger I used to be devastated if I would lose.

  

  Kim Clijsters

• On the September 11 attacks: 'In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.'

  

  John Pilger
  • People
  • Truth
  • America