Anna Louise Strong Quotes

They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

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• I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Movies

• Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attention
  • Yourself
  • Turn

• There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sports

• We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Black
  • Community
  • Drug

• I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Want
  • Play
  • Him

• When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.

  

  Mackenzie Foy
  • Life
  • Know
  • Find

• I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Think
  • Success
  • Lost

• Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • You
  • Best
  • See

• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Truth
  • Dream
  • Teacher

• One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, - who is good? not that men are ignorant, - what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Men
  • Truth

• For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • People

• Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Drinking
  • Smoking

• Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
  • Long
  • May

• I had a dream where the car is reduced to a fossil I had a dream where the car is reduced to a fossil Take a packet of seeds, take yourself out to play I want to see a river of orchids where we had a motorway

  

  Andy Partridge
  • Dream
  • Car
  • River

• A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Revenge

• True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • True

• I'm on my own now. I have my own apartment.

  

  Kay Panabaker

• I wish I'd heard about quickie divorce packs from Tesco's sooner.

  

  Davinia Taylor
  • Wish
  • Divorce

• There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Life
  • Death
  • Reality

• I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

  

  Mojo Nixon
  • Religious
  • Humanity
  • Helping

• I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.

  

  Libby Trickett
  • Time
  • Athlete

• Classical music is an unbroken, living tradition that goes back over 1,000 years, and every one of those years has had something unique and powerful to say to us about what it's like to be alive.

  

  Michael Tilson Thomas
  • Music
  • Powerful
  • Unique

• They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet.

  

  Anna Louise Strong