Anthony Venn-Brown Quotes

The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former.

Anthony Venn-Brown

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• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Truth

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Affection
  • Disappear
  • Spark

• Pressure for the most part comes from this overarching concern that if I head into the election season without sufficient resources, then any outside group, any individual, any super PAC may choose to come in to my district and overwhelm it and take over the airwaves and control the debate.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Control
  • Choose

• As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • Earth
  • Food

• If you establish a routine for your child, then your routine can be more manageable.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Child
  • Routine
  • Your Child

• It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind
  • Age

• Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Children
  • Today
  • Parents

• Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Listening

• Are you Earthseed? Do you believe? Belief will not save you. Only actions guided and shaped by belief and knowledge will save you. BeliefInitiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Believe
  • Action
  • Save

• Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

  

  Alice Walker
  • Trying
  • Attention
  • Dance

• Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Truth
  • Lies

• Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • Hand

• If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Different
  • Together
  • Political

• It's the great tragedy - people employed in ways that don't fully tap everything they do best in life.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I wanted the opportunity to play for Tom Osborne. Here we are in the locker room at half-time, gathering around Coach Osborne. It grows quiet, and I'll never forget what he said. He said, 'Let's get this over with.'

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Time
  • Opportunity

• Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Discovered
  • Advanced
  • Quotation

• It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Power
  • Justice
  • Enemy

• An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.

  

  Sophocles
  • Enemy
  • Gift
  • Ruinous

• When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.

  

  Gabor Szabo
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Play

• The enemy is not individuals, churches, 'ex-gay' organisations or political parties; the enemy is ignorance. Change is created by focusing our energies on overcoming the latter instead of attacking the former.

  

  Anthony Venn-Brown
  • Enemy
  • Ignorance
  • Energies