Ifs Quotes - Page 24

• If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Three, Needs, Adjectives

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• People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  People, Silence, Wish

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Success leaves clues, and if you sow the same seeds, youll reap the same rewards.

  Brad Thor

  Sowing, Rewards, Clue

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• I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.

  Rudolf Nureyev

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Law, Action

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 9, 1595.

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• If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

  Yohan Blake

  Games, Alright, Medal

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• I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

  Lynn Nottage

  Thinking, African American, Broadway

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• If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.

  Lynn Nottage

  Successful, Thinking, Want

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• I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

  David Henry Hwang

  Growing Up, Character, Racism

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• If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today?

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Today, I Can

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• When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on who's in charge. If the young man's in charge or won't let the old man take over, the young man's brute strength becomes destructive and inefficient, and the old man's intelligence, out of frustration, grows cruel and inefficient. Sometimes the old man forgets that he is old and tries to compete with the young man's strength, and then it's a sad sight. Or the young man forgets that he is young and argues with the old man about how to do the work, and that's a sad sight, too.

  Russell Banks

  Frustration, Men, Sight

  Russell Banks (1986). “Trailerpark”

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• Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.

  Colson Whitehead

  Book, Writing, Careers

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• I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

  Dennis Muren

  Done, Enough, Wrong Direction

  "IGN Interviews ILM's Dennis Muren". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 30, 2005.

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• Probably every subject is interesting if an avenue into it can be found that has humanity and that an ordinary person can follow.

  William Zinsser

  Interesting, Humanity, Ordinary

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• The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

  Emma Goldman

  Mother, Sex, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Punishment, People

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• You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything and know that we don't, that's the important part.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Light, Challenges

  Interview in Cardiff, Wales, UK, March 11, 2011.

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• If the sad truth be known, writers, being the misfits we are, probably ought not to belong to families in the first place. We simply are too self-interested, though we may excuse the flaw by calling it 'focused.'

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Self, Firsts, Calling

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• I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if Im paying to see a comedy, then I just want to see whos funniest, with everyone treated equally.

  Doug Stanhope

  Believe, Want, Comedy

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• Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.

  Seamus Heaney

  Country, Mean, Home

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• I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero's journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations.

  Joseph Campbell

  Book, Hero, Adventure

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• We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Compassion, Tolerance

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• Some of my favorite songs--and I don't know if this is the right terminology--are white-boy classics.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Song, Boys, White

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• If your marketing is not delivering consumers to the cash register with their wallets in their hands to buy your product, don't do it.

  Sergio Zyman

  Hands, Marketing, Cash

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• If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

  Kurt Cobain

  Girl, World, Courtney

  "Smashing Their Heads On The Punk Rock". Interview with Darcey Steinke, www.spin.com. October 1993.

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