Cenk Uygur Quotes

I think a progressive is someone who cares to expand freedom for everybody.

Cenk Uygur

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• 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

• A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Up
  • Real
  • Done

• When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Myself
  • Hair
  • Look

• I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Story

• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Thought
  • Nothing
  • Absence

• After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Pretty

• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Want
  • Scared

• You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

  

  Ilya Ehrenburg
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Grass

• The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
  • Real
  • Political

• Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Never
  • Will
  • Two

• I have people who say, 'You should dress up like this, or you should dress more modest; you should cover up more.' And then, at the other end of the spectrum, you have, like, 'Why are you still wearing your scarf? You're in America, you know.'

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• A goal is a dream with a deadline.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Dream
  • Deadline
  • Goat

• My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • World
  • Done
  • Goals

• Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

  

  Randall Munroe
  • World
  • Game
  • Man

• I think I'd be more relaxed as an older mum, although fundamentally life with a baby is pretty much the same whatever age you are. It's nappies, crying, feeding.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Life
  • Age
  • Pretty

• I'd never played a character as long as I played Poussey. Spending time with her, so much time embodying that character, it was so - and still is and always will be - so special to me and a part of who I am.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Character
  • Special
  • Played

• Singing is something I've always loved to do, and I'd never considered taking it further than the shower.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Singing
  • Loved
  • Shower

• Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth. For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love with tranquility except such men.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

  

  Edward Witten
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Simplicity

• I never knew that I could love someone the way that I love you.

  

  Ben Rector
  • Love
  • Way
  • Knew

• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Beginning

• Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Power
  • Freedom
  • Struggle

• Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Doe

• I think a progressive is someone who cares to expand freedom for everybody.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Freedom
  • Progressive
  • Cares