Sun Ra Quotes

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

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• I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Done
  • Best

• I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Baseball
  • Lovely
  • Enjoyed

• I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Think
  • You
  • Terrorism

• The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Know
  • Ignorance

• Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Ideas
  • Human

• As a Marine officer in combat, I was responsible for the lives and safety of all the Marines who served with me.

  

  Oliver North
  • Safety
  • Lives
  • Responsible

• I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Value
  • Face
  • Answers

• Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Own

• It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Country
  • Always
  • Positive

• I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Think
  • Career
  • Boy

• You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • You

• To speak of joy and to sing of it, borne on The shoulders of joyous men, to feel the heart That is the common, the bravest fundament, This is a facile exercise

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Joy

• I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed... I'm telling you there is a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Goals

• I only can properly enjoy carol services if I am having an illicit affair with someone in the congregation. Why is this? Perhaps because they are essentially pagan, not Christian, celebrations.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • Why
  • Christian

• So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love,And thus the soldier arm'd with resolutionTold his soft tale, and was a thriving wooer.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • Soldier

• The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

  

  Arthur Koestler
  • Life
  • Science
  • Progress

• I did have my beginnings in doo-wop music; I had a group called the Tokens in Brooklyn. They went on, of course, to do 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' and a lot of other great things. I went on as a soloist. But I still love doo-wop music.

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Great
  • Music
  • Lion

• I worked in Syria on the front lines, and you hear the plane, you hear the shell is dropping, you realize it's not on you - 'Good' - and then you see the patients coming in and take care of them. And then you have down time. With Ebola, it seems there's no down time. It seems you're always at the front line; you're always exposed.

  

  Joanne Liu
  • Time
  • Good

• Based on my experience, I believe that Ben Sasse has the right policy background, a notable commitment to public service - and, perhaps most importantly, the courage - to help renew our country.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Experience

• By the time the United States went to war with Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, I had made three trips to the country. I covered the fall of the Taliban in Kandahar and have been returning routinely for the past 14 years.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Time
  • Country
  • War

• I will get into trouble, I am sure, because since my Kate Middleton speech and before, certain papers were after me. I am not saying, however, that it would have been moral or right to assassinate Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, but I know it will be read that way. I know it will cause a problem.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Problem
  • Moral
  • Trouble

• I can never understand how a solo could ever be 'uncool.' Play something good, and it won't be uncool, you know?

  

  Darrell Lance Abbott
  • Good

• Before I lived in America, my husband and I did a Californian road trip. We took a month, starting off in L.A. I love the landscapes of California: one moment you're in the desert, the next you're up in the Napa Valley or by the water in Big Bear.

  

  Ashley Jensen
  • Up
  • America
  • Water

• If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

  

  Sun Ra