George Jackson Quotes

It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.

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• I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Life
  • Funny

• If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Bad
  • You
  • Place

• My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Up
  • Night
  • City

• Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Diversity

• I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Star
  • Really
  • Prince

• I know firsthand that immigrants make enormous contributions to our nation, but I also know that we need to secure our borders and make sure that those who came here illegally wait their turn, pay a fine and any unpaid taxes, and pass a criminal background check before becoming citizens.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Know
  • Need
  • Wait

• In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Great
  • Country
  • Myself

• Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Life
  • Live
  • War

• The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Party
  • Attitude
  • End

• We are not afraid to be entertainers.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Afraid
  • Entertainers

• I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Politics
  • Assure

• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Blind

• It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Great
  • America
  • Death

• You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Giving

• If we consider how greatly he has sinned against the masses in the course of the centuries, how he has squeezed and sucked the blood again and again; if furthermore, we consider how the people gradually learned to hate him for this, and ended up by regarding his existence as nothing but punishment of Heaven for the other peoples, we can understand how hard this shift must be for the Jew.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Heaven
  • Consider
  • Punishment

• Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Vision
  • Persistence
  • Award

• A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Love
  • Place
  • For Him

• Shuffling really isn't something you should be doing on your deathbed.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Should
  • Deathbed
  • Shuffling

• It is always wise with a course of action to consider the likely consequences before going ahead with it.

  

  George Jackson
  • Consider
  • Consequences
  • Ahead