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.Wendell Phillips
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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.
Karen Bender -
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.
Umberto Eco -
Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
Samantha Power -
My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
Ram Kapoor -
I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
Washed Out -
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
Larry Gagosian
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
Kaskade -
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
Halldor Laxness -
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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell -
I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
Bam Margera -
There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
Natalie Portman
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
Eddie Campbell -
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
Daisy Ashford -
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.
Ralph Norman -
Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.
H. G. Bissinger -
I like to show that I'm real.
Maluma -
Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
Taslima Nasrin
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God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry.
Balian of Ibelin -
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the 'things' of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. 'We give our children guns and computer games,' Wendy said. 'They gave their children the land.'
Bruce Chatwin -
The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman -
High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton -
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.
Wendell Phillips