Bayard Rustin Quotes

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

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• My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Change

• As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • You
  • See
  • Opportunities

• You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.

  

  G-Eazy
  • You
  • Cool
  • Ability

• You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.

  

  Larry King
  • Why
  • Question
  • Questions

• Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Parents
  • Hand
  • Feel

• Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Eye
  • Smile
  • Her

• I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Music
  • Feeling

• The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Way
  • Evil
  • Defeat

• Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • School
  • Political
  • Change

• There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Think
  • Game
  • Like

• Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • May
  • Purpose

• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Wife
  • Safe
  • Germany

• If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Complain

• You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Control
  • King

• I would trade all the individual awards I've won for a World Cup.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Individual
  • Awards

• One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Strange
  • Negative
  • Publicity

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Figures
  • 20th Century

• Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!

  

  Colin Mochrie
  • People
  • Believe

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• I'd describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is the one shop I can't go past without going into. I just can't resist lovely stationery.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Past
  • Horse

• I have grown up in Delhi in a way, and I keep coming here often. But, and I am sorry to say, I'll always be nervous when in Delhi. In my college days, I have had my bum pinched around so many times. So yes, in Mumbai, I can just walk around and do what I want to do, but in Delhi I'll always be scared.

  

  Preity Zinta
  • Up
  • College
  • Sorry

• Everybody cares about their own, but Pittsburghers love and embrace them in a way I've never seen before, ... Dave's strong faith and integrity resonates extremely well in this community. He's forged in steel.

  

  Jeff Long
  • Own
  • Everybody
  • Cares

• I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Believe
  • Creative
  • Trouble