Ammon Hennacy Quotes

“I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.”

Ammon Hennacy

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• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Media
  • Own
  • Mainstream Media

• It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Learn

• Obviously, local elections are where you can make the most difference, but it's great when everyone starts talking about what they believe in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Difference

• Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Business
  • Relationship

• Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Work
  • Sleep
  • Same

• If you want to play the good roles, spend more time in in college and in acting class than you do in the gym, and you'll have the career you want.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Career

• Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Change
  • Doing

• Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Health
  • Look
  • Elegance

• I have no television - I hate it.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Hate
  • Television

• You learn from things that don't go well, and you try to capitalize when they do. You build on those strengths and try to make your weaknesses stronger.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Learn
  • Try
  • Stronger

• Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Important
  • Kids
  • History

• Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Good
  • Sweet
  • Grow

• To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Sympathy
  • Psalms

• Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.

  

  P. D. James
  • Remember
  • Hand

• I got great voice training in St. Mary’s Church, Wavertree, in Liverpool, when I was a lad. Dressing up in cassocks was all part of the fun. I used to earn sixpence a week and although I don’t go to church very much any more, 'Once In Royal David’s City' is still my favourite hymn.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Up
  • Great
  • Fun

• Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

  

  Peter Agre
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• Judas, boredom is such a drag, drag, drag. Writing might be good therapy for me, though.

  

  Beatrice Sparks
  • Writing
  • Therapy
  • Judas

• Overall, we've lost risk-takers on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. All too often, stars play it safe.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • Lost
  • Risk
  • Red

• I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

  

  William John Wills
  • People
  • Might
  • Hearing

• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• “I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.”

  

  Ammon Hennacy
  • World
  • Trying
  • Change