Norval Morrisseau (Copper Thunderbird) Quotes

My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people.

Norval Morrisseau

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• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Health
  • Serious
  • Gun

• There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

  

  Sally Struthers
  • God
  • Why
  • Man

• It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Wisdom
  • Soil
  • Seed

• It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

  

  Karl Popper
  • You
  • Speak
  • Impossible

• Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Think
  • Just

• Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Kind
  • Always
  • Photography

• We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Celebrate

• It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Great
  • City

• The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Think
  • Man
  • Government

• I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

  

  Larry David
  • Write
  • Idiots
  • I Write

• It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • Political
  • Abuse

• Just because you know I had no other choice doesn't make the anger go away. I understand that. But you're a man now. You can put away these childish things.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Verily wondered what the man could have the audacity to say, in the face of such evidence-what whining, sniveling complaint or protest he might utter.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• The Soviet scheme of compulsory labor is being applied on such a broad scale and is so boldly presented as a ‘proletarian’ scheme that it constitutes the gravest danger that has confronted labor for centuries.

  

  Samuel Gompers

• 'Nyxnissa?'She looked back at the queen. 'There are no happy endings, Nyxnissa.''I know,' Nyx said. 'Life keeps going.'

  

  Kameron Hurley
  • Life
  • She
  • Happy

• It is critical that we pass legislation to dramatically reform our health insurance system, and this reform should include a genuine public option, universal coverage, an end to insurance policy rescissions, and no restrictions against covering people with pre-existing conditions.

  

  Jerrold Nadler
  • People
  • Health
  • Insurance

• The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Men

• I'm interested in just about anything that's right for my voice, and that's a good fit for my personality in the part as well. 'Evita' has always been a dream part for me, but it's really, really high to sing. I'd love to do Elphaba - heck, I'd even do Glinda. For me, I'd do anything to get into 'Wicked!'

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Good
  • High
  • Dream

• If you can't admit a failure, you're not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There's nothing brilliant about what you are doing.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Good
  • Business
  • Failure

• Just as all the world loves a lover, it has been my experience that all the world loves a trailerite.

  

  Wally Byam
  • World
  • Love
  • Beens

• Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Men
  • Women
  • Compassion

• Arrogance occurs in people who have achieved something and believe that they independently caused their own success with no assistance, support, or input from others.

  

  Cherie Carter-Scott
  • People
  • Believe
  • Support

• My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the greatness of the spirit that has always been the foundation of the Ojibwa people.

  

  Norval Morrisseau
  • People
  • Art
  • Language