Jorge Ramos Quotes

My only weapon is the question.

Jorge Ramos

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• The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Jews
  • Were

• Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Long
  • Film
  • Three

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Car

• There is no possible source of evil except good.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Possible

• If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Character
  • Feel
  • Yourself

• I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • May
  • Power
  • Beliefs

• I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.

  

  Lee Child
  • People
  • Power
  • Earth

• Someone who would go across a desert that can kill you, to get to another country? You want to be an American *that* bad? 'Cause I've never had to lift my damn finger to be an American. I'm honored to share a country with you.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Country
  • American
  • Bad

• All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the 'fifties' or 'sixties,' as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Life
  • History

• One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time-that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Time
  • Men
  • Thinking

• 'Tanner, are you insane?''Very probably several kinds of insane,' I said. 'But I’m afraid it doesn’t change anything. I’m perfectly happy with my current delusional system.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Happy

• I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create.

  

  Brian Chesky

• When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • People
  • House

• I'm shying away from getting lost in really bad movies for really good money.

  

  Emory Cohen
  • Good
  • Money
  • Bad

• I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people in the heart. I want to be able to get people to cry or make people angry or sad.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • People
  • Heart
  • Sad

• I can't help who I fall in love with.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Help
  • Fall

• The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

  

  Mike Johanns
  • World
  • Positive
  • Figuring

• The question 'What is Life?' is... a linguistic trap. To answer according to the rules of grammar, we must supply a noun, a thing. But life on Earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

  

  Lynn Margulis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Question

• Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

  

  John Tukey
  • Question

• A large demo of my fans are younger, and I try to be the best role model possible and tell them that if you work hard and believe in yourself, you can create amazing work.

  

  Lele Pons
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Amazing

• KFC is not black owned, but it sure knows to market heavily to African Americans - obviously hoping we won-t care about what they do the underdog, or in this case, the underchicken - So, if KFC wants to take our money and use it to pay for sloppy practices that hurt animals?I say we send them a message that this is not going to happen. I-m calling on people to boycott KFC until they adopt animal welfare systems recommended by PETA and until they stop the worst abuses of the birds they raise for their restaurants.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • People
  • Money
  • Black

• My only weapon is the question.

  

  Jorge Ramos
  • Question
  • Weapon