Charles Ludlam (Charles Braun Ludlam) Quotes

Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

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• Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Job
  • History

• Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Up
  • May
  • Help

• I've always wanted to make a record.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Make

• I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Always
  • Things
  • Magazines

• Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

  

  Halsey
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Everything

• I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Crazy

• I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• When the gods know that a god hath fallen, With this kindly feeling They do encourage him-- Be thou a god again and again.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • God
  • Feeling

• We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our history the history becomes twisted and we get written out. We get our noses blown off.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Believe
  • Men
  • May

• My father's politics were old-fashioned in the sense that he used to say, all the time, "You've got to fight the system!" But my spiritual beliefs have led me to believe that the fight is the problem.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Father

• The world is in trouble. Many have prayed. God sent help. God sent you.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • God
  • Help

• Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul....it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And, besides, I'd like to raid their wardrobe.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Great
  • Music
  • Soul

• One should always be happy, irrespective of what you achieve in a match or in life. That's how I live my life.

  

  Virender Sehwag
  • Should
  • Achieve

• When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.

  

  Richard Lester
  • Beginning
  • Holiday
  • Commercial

• Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Business
  • Science
  • Politics

• Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.

  

  Albert Allen Bartlett
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • National

• What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Life
  • Goodness
  • Eternal

• Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime.

  

  Charles Ludlam
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime