Benjamin Hooks Quotes

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

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• I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Never
  • Need
  • Motivated

• When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Strength
  • Courtesy
  • Added

• Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Society
  • Everything
  • Grow

• To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Economy
  • More
  • Workers

• I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Friends
  • Success
  • Alone

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

  

  Ian Wright
  • People
  • End
  • Name

• The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

  

  Edi Rama
  • People
  • Different
  • Me

• I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Architecture
  • Down
  • Apple

• I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Star
  • Wind
  • Just

• I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Long
  • See
  • Switzerland

• When I realized that if I was an actor, I could be any character I wanted instead of just one particular, I was like, 'Wow, that's cool.'

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Character
  • Cool
  • Actor

• I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Proud

• In this decayed hole among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, the grass is singingOver the tumbled graves, about the chapelThere is the empty chapel, only the wind's home.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Home
  • Wind

• Feminists might identify with me because I'm unapologetic in what they think is a male-dominated world … no, I guess, what is a male-dominated world.

  

  Lucy Lawless
  • World

• I'm constantly progressing. My style is changing every day.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Style

• To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're quote unquote white. So if you're mixed, you embrace the mainstream culture more than the African-American culture.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • American
  • Culture

• To the young girl who fails to see opportunities around her: Awaken the intellectual curiosity within you. Go on, search for those opportunities and chase after them! Because when you are curious and in 'search mode,' you will meet a lot of people and learn, and when you find opportunities, you will be exhilarated rather than overwhelmed.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • Girl
  • Search

• Against this backdrop of technological change and heightened expectations, it is worth remembering our broad public policy objectives, which are driven by the fundamental importance of the payments system in our society.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Society

• Few men are killed by bayonets, but many are scared by them. Having the bayonet fixed makes our men want to close. Only the threat to close will defeat a determined enemy.

  

  George S. Patton
  • Enemy
  • Defeat
  • Threat

• I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • History
  • English

• Music in general is very interpretative, isn’t it? It’s amazing how many songs in history have been misinterpreted but in an amazing way that means something to someone and that’s the beauty of music really, it’s what you make of it. And I think our songs are the same really, they’re no different, and if people pick out lines that mean something in their lives…it’s all we wanted to do: to mean something to people.

  

  Adam Anderson Hurts
  • Music
  • History
  • Songs

• A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

  

  Benjamin Hooks
  • History
  • Action
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