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
  • Question
  • Health
  • 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 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

• 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

• As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Good
  • Work

• I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you and putting make-up on you and telling you when to wake up and when to go to sleep, holding your hand to cross the street. I can do it up to a certain point, and then I start to feel like a puppet.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People
  • Up
  • Hand

• Artists have been very good at working for the church and for the state; communicating the aspirations of a society.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Good
  • Society
  • Church

• Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • People

• Honestly, I look at the project and I look at the people attached and I look at the director. If it's a role that I feel will help me, as an actor, then I'll definitely take it.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • People
  • Helping
  • Actors

• I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

  

  Peter Temple
  • Up
  • Morning

• I think when you get Robert Griffin, one of the most explosive quarterbacks to ever play the position, in a Mike Shanahan-type system, the possibilities are very exciting, I think, with Mike Shanahan's imagination.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • Imagination

• 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