Al-Farabi Quotes
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts
Quotes to Explore
-
There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
-
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
-
My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
-
If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
-
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
-
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
-
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
-
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
-
For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
-
A sudden intimacy occurs when someone does your hair.
-
I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
-
I think human societies tend to be problematic.
-
Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
-
Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
-
I didn't aim at anything except good music.
-
We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.
-
My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
-
The words of the world want to make sentences.
-
What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
-
Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
-
In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
-
Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play rock shows and have tons of tattoos, they will still go to church on Sunday and do their best to live that kind of a life.
-
I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.
-
A just city should favor justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts
