Brian H. Hook Quotes
The only purpose in requesting it was to demand the release of the Americans that they’ve detained, given the sensitivity of that subject, I don’t want to go beyond what I said, that I requested the meeting, and I did have a discussion with them, and that’s as much as I can say on it.
Brian H. Hook
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When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.
Queen Latifah
So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
Gavin DeGraw
There is no greater nobility than offering one’s life to the nation and, Mr. President, your father offered his life so that this nation might be free.
Barack Obama
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, 'I wish you hadn’t made every line funny. It’s so depressing.'
Quentin Crisp
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
W. H. Auden
There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.
Linus Torvalds
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Trump... has the 'strong father' masculine energy.
Mike Cernovich
Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
Sade Adu
On the France's Indochina involvement: 'They were engaged in the most dangerous of all activities – deceiving themselves...France was engaged in a task beyond her strength, indeed, beyond the strength of any external power unless it was acting in support of the dominant local will and purpose.'
Dean Acheson
African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
The only purpose in requesting it was to demand the release of the Americans that they’ve detained, given the sensitivity of that subject, I don’t want to go beyond what I said, that I requested the meeting, and I did have a discussion with them, and that’s as much as I can say on it.
Brian H. Hook
