Paul Robeson Quotes

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

Paul Robeson

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• My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Health
  • Question
  • Healthy

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

  

  Nastia Liukin
  • You
  • Know
  • Person

• I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Guitar
  • Piano
  • Bass

• I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Sometimes
  • Travel
  • Bible

• I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Dream
  • Never
  • Dalai Lama

• For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Electronic

• Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Music
  • Problem

• I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Family
  • Money
  • Same

• People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.

  

  J. Smith-Cameron
  • People
  • Life
  • Death

• I remember auditioning for the Wonder Woman television show and being told that I wasn't the Wonder Woman type, but if I wanted to play the best friend, I could audition for that.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Remember
  • Friend
  • Best

• I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

  

  Carl Rakosi
  • Work
  • Love
  • Poet

• I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there's a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Country
  • Past
  • Problems

• There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me – those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Art
  • You
  • Me

• It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Country
  • Always
  • Positive

• Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • People
  • Up
  • Think

• One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Today
  • Science
  • Know

• are here for the long-term to see Iraq through to a better future.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Long
  • Future
  • Iraq

• I like the communication and trust that comes from a long-term relationship. When you really know people as musicians and as people, you feel you can really count on them. That frees you to take more chances and ... it takes the music to a higher level. It translates into a better product for audiences. There are two levels to these relationships. The first level is being with guys for the first few years, you're getting used to guys - he's got this to offer, he's got that to offer, I don't like this, I do like this. You both praise them and are critical as you get to know one another.

  

  Dave Liebman
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Chance

• The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Thing
  • Worse

• We need to eradicate these terrorist groups, wherever they are. If we failed to do it, we are just waiting for the next.

  

  Richard Shelby
  • Waiting
  • Terrorist
  • Eradicate

• The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

  

  Paul Robeson
  • People
  • Change
  • Forever