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

• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Alone

• 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've always said you might not ever see a mid-major go to the Final Four. When a mid-major wins a game, especially if it's not a good seed, if they play a powerhouse, getting to the Sweet 16 is like going to the Elite Eight. Going to the Elite Eight is like going to the Final Four, so George Mason has already won the national championship. If they win the next two games, they'll have won the world championship. They'll have to give them a gold medal.

  

  Bob Thomason
  • Game
  • Sweet
  • Championship

• The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Ability
  • Price
  • Demand

• I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • Great

• My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Great

• 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