Richard Grossman Quotes

I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.

Richard Grossman

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• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
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• For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.

  

  Kaskade
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• The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that God, now, is about to establish a kingdom on this earth, based upon brotherhood and peace. And the white man is against brotherhood, and the white man is against peace.

  

  Malcolm X
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• I care about writing music and playing my music.

  

  Carla Bruni
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• I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

  

  Frances O'Grady
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• Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.

  

  Imogen Heap
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• Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
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  • Good
  • Business

• For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Me
  • Blue
  • Name

• We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Live
  • Environment
  • Hands

• I feel old films should not be remade.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Feel
  • Old
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• 'Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
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• The democratization of genius is made possible by the fact while one can quarrel with judgments, one cannot quarrel with feelings.

  

  Daniel Bell

• I acquiesced in this on the grounds that the most anyone can expect from a holiday is a change of agony.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

  

  James Gray
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• When you're in a hole, stop digging.

  

  Denis Healey
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• For Ripley I learned to play some songs on the piano, and I never really played them again.

  

  Matt Damon

• I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.

  

  Dorothy Fields
  • Great
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• When the oldest batch of millennials really first began voting around the mid-2000s, they leaned a little toward the Democrats, looking a lot like the Gen Xers also did at that time.

  

  Kristen Soltis Anderson
  • Time

• You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?

  

  Kim Cattrall
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• It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Character
  • Action
  • Impossible

• The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Life
  • Glorified

• The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!

  

  Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
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• There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Calling

• I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • Democracy
  • Persons
  • Marginalized