Sebastian Faulks Quotes

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

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• Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X.

  

  Lena Horne
  • People
  • Myself
  • Person

• You can't criticize people for wanting to have a decent life or wanting to live decently.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • World
  • Important
  • Dream

• I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Sometimes

• Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.

  

  Marion Chesney
  • Women

• I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one's belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.

  

  E. B. White
  • Self
  • Strange
  • Two

• That's the most memorable one, but it's not the most fun to remember.

  

  Dick Trickle
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Memorable

• It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Country
  • America

• Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Energy
  • Discipline
  • Emotion

• When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.

  

  William Bell
  • School
  • Sometimes
  • Military

• I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

  

  Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn
  • School
  • Years
  • Stills

• I do have personal relationships with a lot of "fans," in quotations. I answer all my mail, I get emails from fans, and I try to answer them all. That's important to me, but occasionally there's the thing where people basically ask me to write book reports for them, and I don't have that kind of time. I feel like there's a certain sexism involved, like because I'm a woman I'm supposed to constantly be like giving to everybody.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing

• My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

  

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