African Spir Quotes

The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

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• Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Important
  • Character

• I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Future

• In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • City
  • Restaurant

• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Think
  • Always
  • Punk

• I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Teaching
  • Teachers
  • Salaries

• Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Very
  • Little

• In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • Great
  • Pain

• I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Life
  • Like
  • Movement

• I've always had a complicated relationship with sleep. Even as a little kid, I never wanted to go to bed - it always seemed unfair in some way.

  

  K. Flay
  • Relationship
  • Sleep
  • Never

• To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Moving
  • Regard
  • Peers

• Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Cold
  • Everyone
  • Too Much

• The insidious aid culture has left African countries more debt-laden, more inflation-prone, more vulnerable to the vagaries of the currency markets and more unattractive to higher-quality investment.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Culture
  • Quality
  • Investment

• Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Children
  • Week
  • Lunch

• I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Everything
  • Letters
  • Ever

• Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature

• But you are mobile as the veering air, And all your charms more changeful than the tide, Wherefore to be inconstant is no care: I have but to continue at your side. So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, I am most faithless when I most am true.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • True
  • Light
  • Air

• I can't just turn over and sing disco or rock.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • Rock

• Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.

  

  Ellen Datlow
  • Life
  • Long
  • Art

• It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Time
  • Song

• I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher - a situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things, and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned. But in our modern times we have so many students to teach that we have to try to find some substitute for the ideal.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Done

• Now Mayweather has retired, Alavrez is the biggest name in boxing, and I'm looking forward to pitting my wits against him.

  

  Liam Smith
  • Boxing

• The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain - fratricidal war.

  

  African Spir
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Duty