Sage Francis Quotes

The rich get richer until the poor get educated.

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• I don't have proper places to run.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • Run
  • Places
  • Proper

• Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Better
  • Million

• People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • People
  • May
  • Remember

• I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.

  

  Larry David
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Doing

• It took me a lot of years on the 'Burnett' show to feel like I had earned the privilege to play in the sandbox with the grown-ups.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Play
  • Feel
  • Privilege

• It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• Not all of us are chameleons that can do every different thing. I hope I'm going to be typecast. I will play the girl next door for the rest of my life if I have to. I always kind of feel like I have that in my pocket when I go in a room.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Different
  • Hope

• To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Real
  • History

• The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • History
  • Think
  • Matter

• I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • First
  • Odd
  • Exceptions

• I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • School
  • London
  • Rome

• My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Me
  • Period
  • Curiosity

• I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

  

  Sallust
  • Time
  • You
  • Act

• I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Helping
  • Patient

• I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Time
  • Film
  • Graduation

• I've never been the straight rapper that is going to stand in a cipher and battle all day. I started off battle rapping, but to me, making songs became more important than freestyles... I've met many rappers who can freestyle but can't make a record.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Important
  • Day
  • Battle

• And I says back to him, 'Calvin, sounding like an educated man don’t make you educated,' and he says back to me, 'I'd rather be ignorant and sound educated than be educated and sound ignorant,' and I said, 'Why?' and he says to me, 'Because if you sound educated then nobody ever tests you to find out, but if you sound ignorant they never stop.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Why
  • Stop

• There are a lot of things that immigrants, especially Chinese-Americans, want to share with their children, but there are a lot of things they don't want to share.

  

  Anchee Min
  • Children
  • Chinese

• You can say Pizza Hut is terrible pizza, but they also sell more pizzas than anybody else.

  

  Jimmy Kimmel
  • Pizza

• Humility has nothing to do with depreciating ourselves and our gifts in ways we know to be untrue. Even "humble" attitudes can be masks of pride. Humility is that freedom from our self which enables us to be in positions in which we have neither recognition nor importance, neither power nor visibility, and even experience deprivation, and yet have joy and delight. It is the freedom of knowing that we are not in the center of the universe, not even in the center of our own private universe.

  

  David F. Wells
  • Universe
  • Humility
  • Attitudes

• Musicians always want to sacrifice our creativity to get involved in environmental issues or political activism of some sort - to reduce it to something more populist in terms of sing-alongs or guitar songs with a message.

  

  Eyvind Kang
  • Creativity
  • Songs
  • Guitar

• 'Sharp it away, lad, sharp it away,' the burly guardsman said, making the blade skitter across the whetstone, 'lest otherways ye’ll be a girl afore ye’re a man.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Girl

• The rich get richer until the poor get educated.

  

  Sage Francis