Paul Robeson Quotes

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

Paul Robeson

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• The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.

  

  Washed Out
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Men
  • Done
  • Why

• It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Know
  • Best
  • Answer

• I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

  

  Ralph Macchio
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Design

• A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Artist
  • Inspiration

• (imitating Norman Bates) Mother, are you there? I love you! I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel!

  

  Eminem
  • Mother

• The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • America

• That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Money
  • Humorous

• I think my parents love that I want to do something a little different than what they do.

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Different
  • Parents

• It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Up
  • Long
  • Road

• I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.

  

  Colin Firth
  • Up
  • Mind
  • American

• I've been fascinated with interior design for as long as I can remember.

  

  Matthew Williamson
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Design

• We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Book

• The risk presented by these lethal wastes is like no other risk, and we should not be expected to accept it or to project it into the future in order for manufacturers and utilities to make a dollar killing now.

  

  David R. Brower
  • Future
  • Risk

• I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.

  

  Jeremy Rifkin
  • History
  • Running
  • Technology

• With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks.

  

  Bill Kurtis
  • Smart

• Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Racism

• Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

  

  James Mattis
  • People
  • True
  • Risk

• No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books.

  

  Jeff Abbott
  • Work
  • Different
  • May

• I wasn't sold on 3-D until it was in my own home. The images jump out at you, even more so than in the theater, because you're in tighter quarters and you're closer to the TV, so it feels like the depth is very dramatic.

  

  Katie Leclerc
  • Home
  • Jump

• What makes a classic is difficult to define. It's entirely subjective, of course. And the term is employed far too promiscuously.

  

  John Boyne

• The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

  

  Paul Robeson
  • Humanity
  • Risk
  • Intolerance