Assata Shakur Quotes

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

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• You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

  

  Kate Millett
  • You
  • More
  • Housework

• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Military
  • Financial

• When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Power
  • Think

• At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • First
  • Reservations

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
  • Most
  • Oh

• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • History
  • Day
  • Chicago

• I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Women
  • Emotion

• I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Opportunity
  • Environment
  • Speak

• I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Actor
  • Break
  • Away

• My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

  

  Ian Wright
  • People
  • End
  • Name

• Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• I am a fiscal conservative.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Conservative
  • Fiscal

• I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Girl
  • Tough
  • Reflect

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Respect
  • Cool
  • Radio

• Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

  

  Christoph Martin Wieland
  • Long

• Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.

  

  O. Henry
  • Men
  • Eye
  • Comfort

• Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • History
  • Culture
  • Technology

• They wrote themselves out of the band history, as far as I'm concerned. They should have a little bit of honor. This is supposed to be rock 'n' roll. This is supposed to be friendly. This is like going through the trenches together.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Together
  • History
  • Band

• The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating them. On the other hand, to endorse the accidental view is absurd. Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • People
  • History
  • Hand

• Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

  

  Assata Shakur
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Oppressing