S. R. Nathan Quotes

The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.

S. R. Nathan

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• I get depressed at airports.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Get
  • Depressed

• Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Mother

• The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Manipulation
  • Blockchain

• Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Difficult
  • Patience
  • Lie

• I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Acting
  • Looks
  • Get

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Generation
  • Own

• Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

  

  Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
  • Work
  • Great
  • Experience

• I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Feel
  • Back
  • Go

• We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Struggle
  • Happen
  • Most

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Reality
  • Language
  • Insult

• The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Action
  • Environmental

• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.

  

  Ice T
  • Same
  • New York
  • Group

• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Trying
  • Relationship
  • Winning

• I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Learning
  • Play
  • Songs

• I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • People
  • Free
  • Frustrated

• If you're pretty, you want to be ugly. If you're loud, you want to play quiet. You always want to challenge people's expectations.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Challenge

• Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Play
  • Wall
  • Down

• make drawings of series of instruments and players; their shapes, twisting of the hands, arms and neck of the violinist; for example, puffing out and hollowing of the cheeks of bassoonists, oboists, etc..

  

  Edgar Degas

• I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'

  

  Vik Muniz
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• The question of peace, progress and prosperity, it's a motherhood statement, all of us like it.

  

  S. R. Nathan
  • Peace
  • Question
  • Progress