Mohammad Hamid Ansari Quotes

Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

Mohammad Hamid Ansari

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• It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Either I act or I die.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Die
  • Act

• Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Names
  • Class
  • Terrible

• I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • People
  • Up
  • Outsider

• Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Reality
  • Eyes
  • Situation

• I always knew what I wanted to do and I did it.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Wanted
  • Do

• This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.

  

  Euripides
  • Free
  • Liberty
  • Advise

• That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Surprise
  • Price
  • Intoxicates

• There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Black
  • Missing
  • Sabbath

• The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Art
  • Creation
  • Experienced

• Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Achievement
  • Negative
  • Overcoming

• It is the gifted, unorthodox individual, in the laboratory, or the study, or the walk by the river at twilight, who has always brought to us, and must continue to bring to us, all the basic resources by which we live.

  

  Caryl Parker Haskins
  • Study
  • Individual
  • Resources

• I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People

• Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Way
  • Feelings
  • Hands

• I'm very surprised about the stuff that's happening and the attitudes. I just can't understand why it seems the willingness to go out there and give it all you got and win is just not there.

  

  Brad Wilkerson
  • Win
  • Surprised
  • Willingness

• I was speaking the truth in a system that doesn’t value the truth, but as soon as you go out of it, then speaking the truth actually has an impact. It turns out a lot of people care… not everybody is interested in ignoring bad behaviour. I learned I had to go outside the system.

  

  Susan J. Fowler
  • Truth
  • System
  • Impact

• Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

  

  Mohammad Hamid Ansari
  • Behaviour
  • Attitudes
  • Therefore