Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.Reinhold Niebuhr
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
Ferran Adria -
I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,' the next is, 'Baby, don't leave me', the next is, 'If you leave me I don't care.' You have to drop in and out of different perspectives.
Ice T -
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler -
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes -
I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
Warren Farrell -
If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
Maeve Binchy
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
Oscar Peterson -
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
E. W. Howe -
Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
Salma Hayek -
On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.
Eden Sher -
Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
Vijay Singh -
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
Larry David
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The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and useful.
Gary Wolf -
Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.
Carrie Underwood -
You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
Al Stewart -
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.
Franz Boas -
I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it. However, I do support same sex unions that would give gay couples all the rights, privileges and protections of marriage.
Bob Casey, Jr. -
I was a very defensive kid 'cause I was really sensitive underneath and didn't want people to know. So I came off as very tough and very angry.
Pink
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When I was in school in the Art Institute, we had several problems during the course of the time we were taking ceramic classes where we had to do a sculptural piece. And when I say a sculptural piece, it's nothing like what we conceive of now as a sculptural piece.
Warren MacKenzie -
Any cook should be able to run the country.
Vladimir Lenin -
What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
Dave Mustaine Metallica -
Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
Damien Rice -
I would say 'Looking' and 'Spring Awakening' are the most important and personal projects I've ever been apart of.
Jonathan Groff -
Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.
Reinhold Niebuhr