William Norman Ewer Quotes

I gave my life for freedom-This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

William Norman Ewer

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• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Original
  • Both

• I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Actor
  • Studied
  • Lee Strasburg

• The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Stage
  • Sense
  • Elements

• I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Authenticity

• I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.

  

  Young Buck
  • Opportunity
  • Moving
  • Young

• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Revolution
  • Dictatorship

• Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Car
  • Better
  • Exercise

• I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Good
  • You
  • Couple

• I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Theatre

• A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• The very things I might have given in to, that demanded, that said, this is your life. I mean, this is your only way to survive, are the things I fought hardest to end. 'Cause I believed in something else. And um, what makes that sane is that I can understand other people's situations in their own terms, but I still can't understand mine.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People
  • Life

• It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • She
  • Friend
  • Dance

• I only travel with one suitcase - Mulberry does an incredible one. I always check it; the TSA restrictions are so tricky.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Travel

• To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Business

• Sometimes I wonder if I would've been more successful if I wasn't acting and I concentrated on other things. But I love being on set. I love working with my 100 crew members.

  

  Danny Masterson
  • Wonder

• My favorite album is 'Ram' by Paul and Linda McCartney.

  

  Fred Armisen

• I think everyone, including myself, was pretty surprised the first Freedom goal came from me. So when I think about that goal, all I can really do is laugh at the incredibility of it.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
  • Pretty
  • Freedom

• Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

  

  Epictetus
  • Freedom
  • Rule
  • Tranquility

• The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • God
  • Proud
  • Fighting

• There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations….What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless the masters who either despise or oppress or combine both? The apathy that exists respecting Ireland is worse than the national antipathy they bear us.

  

  Daniel O'Connell
  • Ignorance
  • Army

• I gave my life for freedom-This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

  

  William Norman Ewer
  • Freedom
  • Fighting
  • Knows