Amilcar Cabral Quotes

Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children. . .

Amilcar Cabral

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• Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • School
  • Word
  • Performance

• I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Good
  • College
  • Summer

• I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Age
  • Famous
  • Golden

• I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Song
  • Process

• I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Looking
  • Got
  • Six

• When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Art
  • You
  • Personal

• Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Political
  • Revolution

• The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Brain
  • Student
  • Improving

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been dating a while. We're in a committed relationship, and I'm really happy in my relationship. I'm a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Life
  • Children
  • She

• O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Help
  • Lord
  • Pure

• I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Issues
  • Early
  • Self-Esteem

• There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Giving
  • Focus
  • Generosity

• I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Imagination
  • Sleep
  • Partner

• My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Childhood

• I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Help
  • Problems

• I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

  

  William Morris
  • Men
  • Fighting
  • Politics

• Gray Maynard? Kenny Florian? All these guys, they're UFC fighters, that's all. They're pushed by the UFC, but when they leave the UFC, they're forgotten. When's the last time you heard Josh Neer's name? You haven't. When's the last time you heard about Roger Hurerta? You haven't. They're no ones anymore.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Time

• These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

  

  Dylan Thomas
  • God
  • Fool

• I would say I'm more fascinated by Big Daddy V than I am necessarily a huge fan of Big Daddy V. He simply threw on the double-strapped unitard... and now he's some sort of fearsome, fighting, wrecking machine.

  

  James Roday
  • Fighting

• With all the fighting we do and all the skirmishing we do, the reality is that New Yorkers can come together when they have to.

  

  Peter T. King
  • Together
  • Reality
  • Fighting

• Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children. . .

  

  Amilcar Cabral
  • Future
  • Fighting
  • Benefits