Woody Guthrie (Woodrow Wilson Guthrie) Quotes

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

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• Often, a serial killer has no felony record.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Record
  • Often
  • Killer

• The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Mind
  • High
  • Peace

• I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • American
  • Think

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Life
  • Music
  • Long

• The way to resumption is to resume.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase

• As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Strong
  • Professional

• One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • World
  • Music
  • Why

• Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Boring

• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Taken

• To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Sports

• I saw Len Hutton in his prime,Another time, another time.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Time

• See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

  

  Eminem
  • Day
  • Poet
  • Modern

• In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been emminent in that profession?

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great
  • Men
  • Country

• I don't really seek out vegetarian spots... but mainly, I know how to work a menu no matter where I am.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Work

• The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live - live a complete life - live all our life.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • Live
  • Fear

• I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

  

  Kirstie Alley
  • Believe

• He is well and truly head and shoulders No.1 in the world, there's no question of that.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • World
  • Question
  • Head and shoulders

• True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Time
  • True

• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Simple
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• The world is a harum-scarum place.' 'Harum?' Sunny asked. It's complicated and confusing,' Olivia explained. They say that long ago it was simple and quiet, but that might be a legend.

  

  Daniel Handler
  • World
  • Long
  • Simple

• If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.

  

  Claes Oldenburg
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Search

• Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

  

  Woody Guthrie
  • Simple
  • Genius
  • Complicated