Ewan MacColl Quotes
My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.Ewan MacColl
Quotes to Explore
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
Magic Johnson -
When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
H. P. Lovecraft -
There is something joyous about not talking.
Ingmar Bergman -
There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
Ira Glass -
The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.
Abigail Disney
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
I just want to keep doing what I feel.
Ben Harper -
I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.
Kevin Spacey -
It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
Barnett Newman -
I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
Andrew Mason -
A great many people do not have the right to their own opinion because they don't know what they are talking about.
Andy Rooney
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
I wanted to model when I was younger.
ASAP Rocky -
A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
Tom Stoppard -
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
Aristotle -
They knew. I have clothes I want to wear.
C. Vivian Stringer -
I want to beat England because I want to win every game I play.
Gabriel Batistuta
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"Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.” He was talking about friendship, but the way he looked at her… She would crackle like fire if he touched her.
Courtney Milan -
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
Steve Toltz -
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.
Van Jones -
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
Felix Frankfurter -
Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.
Vincent Van Gogh -
My function is not to reassure people. I want to make them uncomfortable. To send them out of the place arguing and talking.
Ewan MacColl