Noam Chomsky Quotes

We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

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• Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Music
  • Listen
  • News

• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Live
  • Universe

• There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.

  

  Kaki King
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Politics

• I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.

  

  Mae West
  • Believe
  • Fortune
  • Censorship

• We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Political
  • Earth
  • Problems

• One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Why
  • Team
  • Competition

• I love riding, even if it's just my Vespa. You just zip and do your thing. I find there's a different awareness when I ride; it connects me to my senses and to God.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • Different
  • Love

• I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.

  

  E. P. Thompson
  • Process
  • Convinced
  • Terminal

• I never played with anything like toys.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Never
  • Toys

• When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • You
  • Emotional
  • Emotions

• The IronClad is faster than most thumb drives but far slower than a standard hard drive. Boot up, application launch and other Windows operations feel sluggish, though still usable.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drive

• I just don't think it's good to be around too much creative energy other than your own.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Good
  • Energy
  • Creative

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Different
  • Love
  • Job

• If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Moving On

• I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • She
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• It is a fantastic initiative by the ministry to develop Aakash Tablet, a mobile device that can be utilised by students anywhere. It was successfully tried out. The second and third versions have come out and the fourth version is on the anvil.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Come
  • Version
  • Initiative

• Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Respect
  • Judge
  • Discrimination

• The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writing
  • Rest
  • Brain

• When I was a kid, dressing right and looking good was a priority. As I grew up, I just wanted to stay that way, stick out a bit and have my own thing. That's where white belts and wearing some colors started. So signing with Puma was a great fit for me. I usually travel with nine pairs of golf shoes and 10 belts.

  

  Rickie Fowler
  • Looking
  • Grew
  • Dressing

• George W. Bush began a program referred to as the Faith-Based Initiative, an effort to get more grants and contracts to religious providers of secular services, from mentoring to feeding the hungry, based on the largely mythological claim—akin to the existence of “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq—that there was widespread discrimination in giving government funds to religious groups. At the time, Catholic Charities alone appeared to be getting over five hundred million dollars in aid and the Salvation Army, literally a Christian denomination with strong homophobic tendencies, was getting eighty-nine million dollars for work in New York alone.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Destruction

• It is never okay to use the toilet with the door open... I never want to know what comes out of there because sometimes I eat at that restaurant.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Doors
  • Restaurants
  • Toilets

• We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

  

  Noam Chomsky
  • Ideas
  • Looking
  • Heroes