Peter Tosh Quotes

My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.

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• I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • People
  • World
  • Change

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

  

  Gail Porter
  • People
  • Thinking
  • She

• My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Why
  • Mom

• Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

  

  Lara Logan
  • People
  • Think
  • Death

• I don't have many easy songs.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Songs
  • Many

• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Art
  • True

• The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • People
  • Important
  • Power

• Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • People
  • Good
  • Man

• A film like 'The Sixth Sense' burns an image of who you are into people's minds.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • You
  • Film

• I walked around feeling, in a sense, that people of color, we began at the bottom of a slave ship. We were enslaved; we picked cotton. There was Honest Abe, who wore a top hat and was taller than anyone and who said, 'Enough is enough; slavery must end.' And then, black people could stand up again. But after that, we didn't catch up.

  

  Nate Parker
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Long
  • Positive

• I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Kind
  • Seeing

• Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Work
  • Nature

• If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Smile
  • Ignorance

• But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I have worked with many, many talented and dedicated people.

  

  Paula Pell
  • People

• I'm here to work... not to like or dislike people. Neither am I here to win a Miss Congeniality competition. I maintain professional relations with my co-stars.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • People
  • Work
  • Professional

• In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not trying to imitate anyone or follow in their footsteps, because I know, Burt Reynolds was just one of the people that told me this, I know how you can only last in this business if you got something special to offer, just by being yourself.

  

  Mark Wahlberg
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Trust
  • Information

• My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.

  

  James Wolk
  • Dad

• You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

  

  Joe Mantegna
  • Real

• You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.

  

  Charles F. Haanel
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• My songs is hard stuff which politicians don't want on them radio station because they still want people to live in ignorancy.

  

  Peter Tosh
  • People
  • Ignorance
  • Songs