Israel Kamakawiwo'ole Quotes

Facing future I see hope, hope that we will survive, hope that we will prosper, hope that once again we will reap the blessings of this magical land, for without hope I cannot live, remember the past but do not dwell there, face the future where all our hopes stand.

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

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• I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mean
  • Never
  • Understand

• People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Men
  • Society

• I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Always
  • Progress
  • Hypocrisy

• From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • People
  • Important
  • Friends

• I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Read
  • Just
  • Respond

• I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Walk

• You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Up
  • Want
  • Career

• I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Look
  • Three
  • Jerusalem

• I saw a sign one time that said 'hemorrhoids awareness week' at the doctor's office. Let me tell you, if you got hemorrhoids, I'm sure you are aware of it. You don't need a sign to tell anybody about it.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Time
  • Week
  • Doctor

• I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Music
  • Friend
  • Favorite

• Anyone that has been lucky enough to go to the races and witness the magnificent spectacle of a competitive race will know how people like me can instantly fall in love with the power and beauty of race horses in full gallop.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Lucky

• It’ll be the ballot or it’ll be the bullet. It’ll be liberty or it’ll be death. And if you’re not ready to pay that price don’t use the word freedom in your vocabulary.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Death
  • Freedom

• This māyā, that is to say, the ego, is like a cloud. The sun cannot be seen on account of a thin patch of cloud; when that disappears one sees the sun. If by the grace of the guru one's ego vanishes, then one sees God.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Sun
  • Ego

• If you can’t fuck it, and it doesn’t dance, eat it or throw it away.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Dance

• Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Environment

• The King has a right to make political remarks. He is a Thai citizen and has his rights and freedoms under the Constitution. Each of you is under the Constitution, and so is the King. I am using my freedom under the Constitution.

  

  Bhumibol Adulyadej
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • King

• A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Facing future I see hope, hope that we will survive, hope that we will prosper, hope that once again we will reap the blessings of this magical land, for without hope I cannot live, remember the past but do not dwell there, face the future where all our hopes stand.

  

  Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Faces