Edwin Arthur Hall Quotes

Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures of those countries to deprive the people of the possession and use of firearms, so that they could not resist the encroachments of such diabolical and vitriolic state police organizations as the Gestapo, the Ogpu, and the Cheka.

Edwin Arthur Hall

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• Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Music
  • Theory

• The earth laughs in flowers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flowers

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Admit

• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Think
  • Mistake

• Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Movies

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Me
  • Bought
  • Bankrupted

• Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Me
  • Software

• I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Music
  • Nature

• If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Thought
  • Find
  • Problems

• I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Think
  • Change

• I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Life
  • Game
  • Success

• You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Know
  • Retire

• It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Health
  • Look

• Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Snow

• A bear and a rabbit were taking a shit in the woods. The bear turns to the rabbit and says, 'Excuse me, do you have problems with shit sticking to your fur?' And the rabbit says, 'No.' So the bear wiped his ass with the rabbit.

  

  Eddie Murphy

• I find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • People
  • Trees
  • Depresses

• People like to invent enemies. It spares us the need to address complex worldviews.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Like
  • Need

• For one thing, Greenlight only hires nice people. By that, I don't mean that we avoid hiring jerks. I mean we actively look to hire people who are nice.

  

  David Einhorn
  • People
  • Nice

• Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Art
  • Graffiti

• There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon the free legislatures of those countries to deprive the people of the possession and use of firearms, so that they could not resist the encroachments of such diabolical and vitriolic state police organizations as the Gestapo, the Ogpu, and the Cheka.

  

  Edwin Arthur Hall
  • People
  • Possession
  • Resist