Benjamin Hooks Quotes

The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

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• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Death
  • Terrorism
  • Sickness

• I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Paris
  • Cinema

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Book
  • Happiness

• I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.

  

  Valerie June
  • Just
  • Go
  • Marry

• These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Door
  • Speed

• But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Country
  • Think
  • House

• I think it's important to travel around in order to get a notion of what's going on, to find out what people are think about. I enjoy talking on campuses most because people are more informed and discussion is generally livelier.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • People
  • Important
  • Travel

• It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • Political
  • Abuse

• The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • You
  • Challenge

• For 'Is' and 'Is-not' though with Rule and Line And 'Up' and 'Down' by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, Was never deep in anything but - Wine.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up
  • Deep
  • Wine

• Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Important
  • Nice

• Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Happy
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Together
  • Science
  • Tree

• A man can never dream these kinds of thingsEspecially when she came and spread her wingsWhispered in my ear the things I'd likeThen she flew away into the night.

  

  Liam Gallagher Oasis
  • She
  • Dream
  • Night

• Patience is also a form of action.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Action
  • Patience

• My destructive side has grown a mile wideand I question myself again: what is it about men?

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Men
  • Question

• There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

  

  Antoni Gaudi
  • Nature

• Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Feeling
  • Religion
  • Language

• I woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't like an image; it was just like knowing. It was so weird, which is why I paid attention.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Up
  • Why
  • Knowledge

• Our brains are very, very good at self-delusion. What happens is, it releases the stress hormone cortisol in the brain, which leads to foggy thinking, so you're not even able to judge well whether you're working well or not.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Brain

• The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

  

  Benjamin Hooks
  • Brain
  • Civilization
  • Contributions