Paul Robeson Quotes

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

Paul Robeson

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• But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Acting
  • Objective

• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
  • Film
  • Student

• I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I love wrestling, and I love the entertainment aspect of wrestling, but the rest of my life, I just want to be able to live and enjoy my life. I don't want to be living it essentially for other people's entertainment.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Life
  • Enjoy

• Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Eyes
  • Coffee
  • Drinking

• The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Balance

• Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Day

• What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Men
  • Women
  • Know

• I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.

  

  P. D. James
  • May
  • Hope
  • Stupid

• A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time by 100 years you may be ahead of your time by 10 at most.

  

  Leo Szilard
  • Time
  • May
  • Science

• You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

  

  Desmond Tutu

• I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • Long
  • Live

• I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Parents
  • Gratitude
  • Grandparents

• It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

  

  Kris Allen
  • Fun
  • Write
  • Adele

• My morning routine is quite common: I have breakfast at home while reading the newspaper, I take a shower, get dressed, a spray of cologne, and I am ready to go!

  

  Domenico Dolce
  • Home
  • Reading
  • Morning

• Whatever show is on, I dress in that designer's clothes. Some of them were totally unwearable.

  

  Kim Basinger

• I met my darling wife Wilnelia in 1980 when we were on the judging panel for the Miss World contest at the Royal Albert Hall. With two ex-wives and five daughters, I thought I wouldn't be involved with anyone for a long time - if ever. Winnie was so gorgeous, my jaw dropped - and it's a big jaw to drop.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• I am extremely excited for Melbourne. It will be my first race in Formula One and it is a dream come true.

  

  George Russell
  • Dream
  • Race
  • Excited

• A wise man once said, 'Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.'

  

  Learned Hand
  • Strong
  • Wise

• I believe that when the collective, as a whole, when people as a whole realize that we are everywhere, that we are your children and we are your mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters, that we have been with you and among you and we are you, we have been this whole time, that that’s the moment when the myths and the bullying and the inequality will end.

  

  Nicholas Petricca
  • End
  • Moment
  • Inequality

• If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing - the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.

  

  John Niven
  • Together
  • Help
  • Food

• Everything you can touch and depend on in our society goes back to science.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Society
  • Science

• We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

  

  Paul Robeson
  • Power
  • Right
  • Demand