Benjamin Hooks Quotes
There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.Benjamin Hooks
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
Callie Thorne -
I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
Wayne Dyer -
You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
Foster Friess -
I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.
Felicity Kendal -
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark -
Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
Maajid Nawaz
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
This is America, not a banana republic.
Vincent Bugliosi -
I'm going to go do a Netflix series. It's straight-to-series, 10 episodes, probably go for three seasons. I'm going to direct the pilot and hopefully the last episode of the first season. The show is 'Seven Seconds.'
Gavin O'Connor -
The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.
Dan Quinn -
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde -
I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
Kate Beckinsale
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It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
Floyd Abrams -
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln -
The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
Gary Herbert -
I am not a multimillionaire. I don't own a yacht or a Ferrari. I live in a 60-square- metre flat. My needs are simple.
Ferran Adria -
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Johnson -
By the 1970s, the American woman was being called ‘liberated’ or ‘superwoman’ while the American man was being called ‘baby killer’ if he fought in Vietnam, ‘traitor’ if he protested, or ‘apathetic’ if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.
Warren Farrell
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Did I have a responsibility to discuss issues? Absolutely. Bobby Dylan was discussing issues – Disney wasn’t.
Ralph Bakshi -
How far you are I just don't know The distance I'm willing to go I pick up a stone that I cast to the sky Hoping for some kind of sign
Norah Jones -
I know everyone claims that their cast is 'really close,' but I think the bond we share in 'Newsies' is unique. In the show, these boys risk everything in the name of brotherhood, and I feel that same way about the guys in my cast.
Andrew Keenan-Bolger -
I think I've learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.
Joyce DiDonato -
I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
Max Walker -
There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.
Benjamin Hooks