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

• For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King’s side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay. No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustin’s memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • History
  • True

• A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Energy
  • Person
  • Goals

• One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • House
  • Air

• Let's establish that no one in Washington actually cares about balancing the budget.

  

  Cenk Uygur
  • Washington
  • Budget
  • Cares

• I want to be one of the best ever. It's important to me. Why can't I be? Who's faster than me? Not many. Who has the size and can move like me? Not many. Catch passes like me? Not many.

  

  Edgerrin James
  • Important
  • Move
  • Catch

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

  

  Charles Ludlam
  • Ridiculous
  • Sublime