Bob Avakian Quotes

If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.

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• You honestly can't go wrong with All Saints. I live in their leather!

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Live
  • You
  • Leather

• In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Influence

• Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Up
  • Design
  • Philosophy

• I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feel
  • Calling
  • Juice

• What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Punishment
  • Loving

• It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.

  

  Sallust
  • War
  • Hands
  • Commencement

• Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Character
  • My Mind
  • Insecurities

• At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • Needs
  • Pride
  • Whole

• I give thank for God for my roots in the Word of Faith teachings. It is truly on the shoulders of great men of God like Brother Kenneth E. Hagin that we are able to see further into the Word of God today. Growing up, I learned a lot about faith from Brother Hagin who truly had a special revelation of faith from the Lord. I deeply honor and respect him for all that he has taught me.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Today
  • Brother
  • Honor

• Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Way
  • Republicans
  • Democrats

• And wrinkles, the damned democrats, won't flatter.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Democrats
  • Wrinkles
  • Flatter

• As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and that the many small ones, like the fewer large ones, are all politically supporting their class interests, and this is always and everywhere the capitalist class.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Remember
  • Rule
  • Interests

• What we can do now to bring about his kingdom of justice is to cooperate in the establishment of justice in that portion of his kingdom over which we have some immediate control: ourselves. Let us begin the pursuit of justice and peace by cleaning up our own lives and establishing peace within our own hearts.

  

  Basil Pennington
  • Justice
  • Hearts
  • Cleaning

• If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.

  

  Bob Avakian
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