Leslie Cockburn Quotes

When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.

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• We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Fell

• We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Fear
  • Dark
  • Devil

• When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Want
  • Powerful
  • Perspective

• With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Work
  • Speed
  • Canvas

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Like
  • Denial
  • Repression

• I came up with a story and I wrote it.

  

  E. L. James
  • Up
  • Story
  • Wrote

• Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Moon
  • Fly

• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • Why
  • Job

• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Beautiful
  • Man
  • Machine

• All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Black

• The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • World
  • Live
  • Trying

• Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Culture
  • Rich
  • Tradition

• I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • Time
  • Women
  • Power

• Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • She
  • Cool
  • Unique

• All beautiful things in this world are because of women.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Think
  • Give
  • Become

• There's no lack of talent out there. I suspect there is a lack of creative guidance, and that would not be solely the responsibility of a director but also a producer.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Responsibility
  • Talent

• In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Country
  • America
  • Health

• All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Life
  • Real
  • Air

• Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

  

  George Will
  • Government
  • Complaining
  • Suspicion

• I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing and exploring sound. I find it really beautiful.

  

  Zeena Parkins
  • Music
  • Different
  • Beautiful

• When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations.

  

  Leslie Cockburn
  • Different
  • Humanity