Sidney Blumenthal Quotes

As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

Sidney Blumenthal

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• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Terrible
  • Smoke

• The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Age
  • Ideas
  • Class

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Evil
  • Human
  • Bed

• The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Good
  • Space
  • Fall

• I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Freak
  • Geek
  • Freakish

• I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Appreciate
  • Evolution

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Never
  • Give
  • Encouragement

• As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Justice
  • Understand
  • Provide

• Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Good
  • Love
  • Health

• I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Like

• By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Clothes
  • Tattoos
  • Nerdy

• Scotland is the Canada of England!

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • England
  • Canada
  • Scotland

• I like things all shined up and rocking with hooky pop choruses.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Like
  • Things

• The fans make the person a star.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Star
  • Person
  • Fans

• I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Play
  • Person

• If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don't get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • People
  • World

• You know, President Obama feels very strongly that the government has a responsibility to engage with the American people, as well as with the world community.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • People
  • World
  • American

• I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families--sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Children
  • Family

• Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

  

  David Guterson
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Journey

• As I said, if you don't stand up for yourself, people aren't going to think that you can stand up for them.

  

  Sidney Blumenthal
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Stand