Damon Knight Quotes
No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties.Damon Knight
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
Dale Carnegie -
I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.
Yannick Noah -
All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
Nancy Gibbs -
What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
Vernon Jordan -
It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
Sam Shepard -
'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
Mahershala Ali
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn -
With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
Madison Marlow -
Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
Francia Raisa -
Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
Ted Nugent -
'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
Laura Slade Wiggins -
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
Dan Buettner
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
Felipe VI of Spain -
I'm not a babysitter.
Adam Lambert -
Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
Valentina Tereshkova -
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
Bat for Lashes -
America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
Ferdinand Mount
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
Gary Hamel -
Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
Jeff Lindsay -
The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter.
Adelbert von Chamisso -
I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.
Oleg Cassini -
I think television is a unique form, in terms of storytelling. Having source material for these really dense, complicated, serialized dramas is a great way of world-building.
Chris Albrecht -
No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties.
Damon Knight