Agnes Smedley Quotes

Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.

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• Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • World
  • Great
  • Song

• Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Different
  • Experience
  • True

• My parents have been with me every step of the way.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Step

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play rock shows and have tons of tattoos, they will still go to church on Sunday and do their best to live that kind of a life.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • You
  • Fashion
  • London

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • First
  • Worst
  • Cheat

• Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Liberty
  • Step
  • Tyranny

• I wake up some mornings hating me too.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Me
  • Wake Up

• While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.

  

  Sam Wood
  • Support
  • Road
  • Building

• The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Being
  • More
  • Minute

• Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Greatest

• People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Theatre

• Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • You
  • Saying

• Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Art
  • Political
  • Education

• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • English
  • Baseball
  • Italian

• I can never really enjoy being famous.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Never
  • Enjoy
  • Famous

• I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, "That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!" Will you say so, Heathcliff?

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Children
  • Loved
  • Lose

• Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Weapons

• I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

  

  David Gallagher
  • Up
  • Good
  • School

• Is it ignorance or apathy, I forget the lessons taught to me.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Education
  • Ignorance
  • Apathy

• We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.'

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Corn
  • Guns N Roses

• Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.

  

  Agnes Smedley
  • Children
  • True