Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Quotes

We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

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• There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Like
  • Radical
  • Critic

• It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movies
  • New Things

• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Humor
  • Weapon
  • Incredible

• You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Rich
  • Meaning

• I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • History
  • Learning
  • Best

• I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Yoga
  • Healthy
  • Run

• In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Problem
  • Reason
  • Religious

• As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • Career
  • You

• When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Go
  • Wait
  • Outside

• I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.

  

  Ian McShane
  • School
  • Happy
  • Teacher

• I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Long
  • Very
  • Function

• The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Me
  • Books
  • Profound

• Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Fraud
  • Suspicion
  • Flavor

• I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Long
  • Character
  • Career

• We should be individualizing instruction, utilizing that data to actually give teachers the tools necessary to meet the needs of a very diverse group of kids which exists in every class.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Group
  • Tools

• My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.

  

  Hamilton E. James
  • People
  • Career
  • Growing

• Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Men
  • Women
  • Home

• I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.

  

  John Williams

• With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Good
  • Past
  • Best

• I have a terrible tendency to lick my fingers when I cook. So much so that I got a telling off from my pastry teacher years ago, who said it would hinder my prospects.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Teacher
  • Years
  • Said

• I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

  

  Mayim Bialik
  • Night
  • Crazy
  • Sleep

• A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

  

  George Orwell
  • Society
  • Structure
  • Fraud

• We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. We should cling to them just as blood is thicker than water.

  

  Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
  • Light
  • Story
  • Historian