George William Russell Quotes

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

George William Russell

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• When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Done
  • Strong

• To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • World
  • Believe
  • True

• When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Go

• I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Want
  • Ego

• I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • People
  • Good
  • Heart

• I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Like
  • Living
  • Disappointed

• I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Best
  • Movies
  • Scary

• Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Struggle
  • Matter
  • Fate

• When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Know
  • Desire

• Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

  

  Conor Cruise O'Brien
  • Nature

• College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

  

  Jerry Kramer
  • College
  • Positive
  • Sweet

• Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Age

• Only the pun remains. The pun, beloved of Shakespeare, children and tabloid headline-writers, is normally eschewed in the modern, sophisticated circles in which I move.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Children

• I want the type of career where I can come back to theater. Theater is my home. Theater, to me, is like ballet for dancers. It's my foundation.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Home
  • Career
  • Ballet

• As an actor, it's up to you to show that you can do something else. For me, the interesting actors don't always go where you expect to find them.

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • Up
  • Interesting

• Just recently I was in Target with my mom shopping, and out of the blue, I see this father and his two daughters and he says, 'Can they get a picture with you?' And I'm thinking to myself, 'Am I the one millionth customer or something?'

  

  Atticus Shaffer
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Mom

• I couldn't imagine a day without music. It relaxes and stimulates me in equal measure and I hate the sound of silence - the concept, I mean, not the track by Simon and Garfunkel.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Music
  • Hate
  • Silence

• I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson

• To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

  

  Philip Massinger
  • Lost
  • Fall
  • Doubt

• I pledge as Taoiseach to use my office, for as long as I hold it, to advance the cause of LGBT rights, to press for marriage equality across Ireland, to speak up for LGBT rights around the world where they are under attack, and to push for the implementation of the sexual health strategy here at home at a time when it is more important than ever.

  

  Leo Varadkar
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Every day, you try to get better, and I don't think I'll ever be complacent and happy with where I am, no matter what.

  

  Jared Goff
  • Happy

• No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

  

  George William Russell
  • Important
  • Leader
  • Development