Wilfred Burchett Quotes

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

Wilfred Burchett

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• The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Society
  • Make
  • Blush

• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Should
  • Matter
  • Say

• I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Great
  • Literature

• I know I'm profane. And outspoken.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Know
  • Outspoken
  • Profane

• There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Landscape

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• Folks like me have to feel a little indebted to the communities that they came from. And if they do, I think we'll start to see a little bit more of a geographic integration in the country because people will start to think, 'You know what? I owe that place something, and I should return to it in one form or another.'

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Country
  • Me

• When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Society
  • Face
  • Celebrate

• Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Great
  • Running
  • Run

• I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • North

• I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Want
  • Enjoy
  • Win

• I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • People
  • Sweet
  • Start

• To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.

  

  Larry Wall

• My mum actually gave up work to look after my child, which is so touching.

  

  Jamelia
  • Up
  • Work

• Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

  

  Daniel Webster

• Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

  

  Birch Bayh

• I'm focusing on cultivating my land. I have vegetables and fruit trees; I want to get some chickens and solar and really get off the grid and focus on just, really, being a mother.

  

  Angela Lindvall
  • Mother
  • Focus

• As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.

  

  George Washington
  • Justice
  • Mankind
  • Liberal

• I grew up in Florida, so every now and then, we'd have a garter snake in the lawn. But I'm not super okay with them.

  

  Maulik Pancholy
  • Up
  • Snake

• When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

  

  Luther Allison
  • Chicago

• Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Violence

• Together, together, my friends, we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution, our revolution, continues!

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Friends
  • America
  • Together

• Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

  

  Wilfred Burchett
  • Political
  • French
  • Socialist