Antonio Gramsci Quotes

I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

Antonio Gramsci

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• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Films

• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Lose
  • Praise
  • Half

• At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • School
  • Friends
  • Guy

• Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Real
  • You
  • Find

• I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Feel
  • Looking
  • France

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • America
  • Hope

• If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Baby
  • Year

• If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Then
  • You Can Do It

• There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Great
  • Day
  • London

• It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

• Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Important
  • Age

• Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • You
  • Funny
  • Always

• There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Long
  • Reason
  • Problems

• It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Child

• You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

  

  Ram Dass
  • You
  • Moving
  • Content

• When you make a promise, keep it.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Promise
  • Make

• I give a lot of credit to Darrell Bevell and to Tom Cable for their work and their development of the players that they had that was available to them. They did an extraordinary job, and I do think, as Bevell was our offensive coordinator, we broke every record that the Seahawks had offensively. So there's a lot to be said for that.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Work
  • Job

• When someone comes in with a product they want in Bed Bath & Beyond, that's way out of my comfort zone.

  

  Chris Sacca

• We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Control
  • Environment

• If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created.

  

  Jim Cramer
  • People

• I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

  

  Antonio Gramsci