Jon Bellion Quotes

'Translations Through Speakers' was literally, I'm translating very spottily what my aspirations are.

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• When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • System
  • Become
  • Oppression

• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Politics
  • Agreement
  • Pulpit

• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writing
  • Football
  • Hurt

• If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fight

• In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • City
  • Violence

• I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Opportunity
  • Doing
  • Greatest

• A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Big

• I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith. And it helps to have a wild imagination.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Hopes

• The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Want
  • Single
  • King

• Center is a very tough position to play.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Play
  • Very
  • Tough

• First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show aired, they caught the killer!

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • America
  • Night
  • Acting

• Broadcasting began, essentially, in the hands of very, very few players - actually two - and when television came along, there were two networks, then three. Rules began to get formulated that essentially protected that concentrated group.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Hands
  • Television
  • Rules

• Among physicists and chemists, cold fusion - nuclear fusion at close to room temperature - enjoys a reputation about on par with creationism.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Cold
  • Reputation
  • Room

• Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Action

• How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Better
  • Half
  • Often

• Cinema seats make people lazy. They expect to be given all the information. But for me, question marks are the punctuation of life.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Life
  • Question

• Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Old
  • Empires
  • Nationalism

• After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • People
  • Great
  • Trying

• But what I was going to say was, I just figured I'm going to go boldly in the direction of my dreams, say it as Thoreau would say, and just see where it takes me.

  

  Demetri Martin

• When speaking to young people, I tell them that it is important to make sure that your mind is right, so you will have something to fall back on.

  

  Archie Griffin
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Young People

• I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Life
  • Me
  • Childhood

• Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• 'Translations Through Speakers' was literally, I'm translating very spottily what my aspirations are.

  

  Jon Bellion