Wendell Phillips Quotes
Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
Quotes to Explore
-
At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
-
Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
-
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
-
My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
-
I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
-
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
-
I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
-
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
-
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.
-
We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
-
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
-
I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
-
There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
-
And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
-
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
-
My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
-
Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
-
I like to show that I'm real.
-
I'm not a Johnny-come-lately Jew. I've been around. I watch out for the Jews; I watch out for the Catholics.
-
When Nelson Mandela walked free, the world sang with joy. Ever since, South Africa has stood as a beacon of hope for Africa.
-
Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.
-
Here we were supposedly changing the world for the better in the Sixties, but as we get 40 years further down the line, we realise that some of those changes such as the drugs probably weren't all that great or sensible. It was all about social experiments.
-
Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.
-
Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
