Paul Robeson Quotes

We must realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

Paul Robeson

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• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Women
  • Single
  • Voters

• The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Truth
  • Technology
  • Better

• A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Long
  • Important
  • Pretty

• I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Wife

• I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • College
  • Mom

• She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Support
  • Mom
  • Kid

• 'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, seven years old with my mother for the first time. I don't know why my mom let me watch that. I couldn't go to the bathroom by myself. I couldn't go upstairs by myself. I couldn't sleep.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Time
  • Why
  • Mother

• Phone networks can capture life on our planet.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Life
  • Phone
  • Capture

• You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Real
  • She
  • You

• People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Trying
  • Free

• I'm not the youngest person at the table anymore. I'm not the young precocious one. I feel like I'm engaging with people in a different way now. I am a woman. I'm treated with respect, as an equal.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Different
  • Respect

• I have just read your book On the Spiritual in Art from cover to cover, and I will read it once more. I find it pleasing to an extraordinary degree, because we agree on nearly all of the main issues..

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Art
  • Book
  • Spiritual

• Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Family
  • Soul
  • Feeling

• I'm very claustrophobic.

  

  Brittany Snow

• I love doing fashion.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Fashion

• I don't think of myself as a small receiver, but you can't control what somebody says about you. It hasn't held me back - actually, I think I've changed the perception of smaller receivers.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Small
  • Control
  • Perception

• Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Witty

• I watched a lot of Jerry Rice's film just to learn how to run routes, but it was so difficult to imitate him, and he didn't play with the same body language that I wanted to play with.

  

  Doug Baldwin

• Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Attention
  • Hand
  • Magic

• My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research priorities are explicitly focused on the Roomba of the future that will deliver on the promise of automatically cleaning your floor.

  

  Colin Angle
  • Future
  • Vision
  • Promise

• A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you've got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Ideally, it's insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you're very lucky.

  

  Jason Statham
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

  

  Buddy Rice
  • Car

• People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Money
  • Globalization

• We must realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

  

  Paul Robeson
  • Future
  • Hand
  • Realize