Ertharin Cousin Quotes

I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

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• Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Remember
  • Things
  • Going

• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Mind
  • Question
  • Always

• I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • God
  • Job
  • Movie

• I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

  

  Quintilian
  • Difficulty
  • Sloth
  • Pretext

• We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• Why does my brain insist on counting the steps every time I walk up a flight of stairs? I just can't help myself. There's something about my mind that always wants to keep counting.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• Don't let people talk you into what they think is you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Think
  • Talk

• Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Food
  • Spoiled
  • Southerner

• It's really empowering to have curly hair.

  

  Cam
  • Hair
  • Empowering
  • Curly

• I grew up in war-torn Iraq, and I believe that there are two sides of wars and we've only seen one side of it. We only talk about one side of it. But there's another side that I have witnessed as someone who lived in it and someone who ended up working in it.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • Believe
  • War

• What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Trust

• Many black men leave because they are financially responsible-not because they are emotionally irresponsible.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Black

• A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Society
  • Law

• Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People
  • Moral

• Frankly, I think I might scare the parties, and that would be a good thing.

  

  Angus King
  • Good

• The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Betrayal

• And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

  

  George Eliot
  • Rules
  • Consider
  • Human Nature

• People say that I'm a millionaire, but that's not true - I only spend millions.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • People
  • True

• You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Game

• I consider myself a persuasive person. With the ability to persuade comes a certain level of power.

  

  Ertharin Cousin
  • Power
  • Consider
  • Level