Alex Colville Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt -
Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur -
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
Nancy Pelosi -
I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
Sam Hunt -
Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
Aaron Diehl
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
Ira Glass -
I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
Daniel Barenboim -
Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
Warren Zevon -
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham -
What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
Imran Khan -
Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
Walter Kirn
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
Ed Skrein -
Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.
Naomi Klein -
I love working with women.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
Adam McKay -
Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.
Frances Beinecke -
Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
Viktor Orban
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
Jack Kerouac -
Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
Karl Kraus -
By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we see on the moon are the works of the Lunarians and may be called their Towns.
William Herschel -
There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell that seem to fall a little bit more on the indie level.
Anne Fletcher -
The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.
Alex Colville