William Ellery Channing Quotes
We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.William Ellery Channing
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
Yuri Andropov -
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
Naomi Klein -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
Natasha Leggero -
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
Kat Graham
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
Hannah Simone -
Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
Brown Campbell -
You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
Karen Elson -
I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
Dan Fogler -
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
Salman Rushdie -
When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
Larry Wilmore
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
Zhang Zhidong -
I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
Magic Johnson -
I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
Kate Bush -
I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
Sam Hunt -
I was asked if I would play President Obama in 'My Name is Khan.' I didn't feel comfortable with doing it. Partly because he was still in office, but mainly because I felt that there were other people who were better suited to doing the role.
Forest Whitaker
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A lot of liberals think all the Trump voters are a part of the alt right, neo Nazi camp, which is not true. That's a tiny, tiny slice.
Van Jones -
Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy.
Nestor Carbonell -
History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans were being stripped from the continent and sailed across the Atlantic to the Western world, depictions of black people in Western art changed in order to further render them racialized caricatures.
Clint Smith -
The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.
Maximilien Robespierre -
Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.
E. L. Doctorow -
We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
William Ellery Channing