Rebel Quotes - Page 20

• The thing is, the kids always rebel against what the parents try to push on them so I'm going to pretend like I don't want my son to hear the rock. I'm going to listen to it only in my private chambers. He'll hear echoes of it and say: "What was that you were listening to papa?" And I'll say: "Nothing son, you're not ready."

  Jack Black

  Kids, Son, Echoes

  "Tenacious D in The Pick Of Destiny - Jack Black/Kyle Gass Interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

  Douglas Booth

  School, Watches, Way

  Source: www.gq.com

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• To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

  Terence McKenna

  Two, Tasks, Three

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• Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Renegades

  Song: I'm Still Nr. 1

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• All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Teenager, Thinking, Safety

  "Q&A – Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana on Hanna, Replacing Twilight, MMA, and the Joys of Parenting". Interview with Christian Chung, www.amc.com.

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• I'm a real rebel with a cause.

  Nina Simone

  Real, Uprising, Causes

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• It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Visionaries, Arms

  "The Victorian Age in Literature". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch I: The Victorian Compromise and Its Enemies, p. 8, 1913.

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• Rap comes from the humble beginnings of rebelling against the status quo. Now, rappers have become the status quo themselves. You can't rebel against the Queen and then become the Queen yourself. I attribute much of the blame to testosterone-male dominance and patriarchy.

  Chuck D

  Queens, Rap, Humble

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

  Ariel Durant

  Tyrants, Today, Tomorrow

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• Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for truth, who rebels against personal discipline, who hates disinterested thought and the idea of self-education. Wisdom offends him, because it rouses in him disturbance and confusion, and because he will not see himself as he is.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Hate, Men, Animal

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• Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched
  infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am
  compelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinate
  rebels.

  John Knox

  Sin, Threatening, Thunder

  John Knox (1842). “Writings of the Rev. John Knox: Minister of God's Word in Scotland”

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• I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. If you tell me something's funny, I'll want to rebel against it. When I go to a bookstore and see books categorized as humor, I get furious. Don't tell me that a book is funny. Let me decide if it's funny. It's the same with sitcoms. You call something a sitcom and people expect it to be funny. And that ruins everything.

  Amy Sedaris

  Hate, Book, Ideas

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March 2004.

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• All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?

  Bob Marley

  Music, Government, People

  Interview with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand, 1979.

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• I think school is so important. I was good student. A rebel, but I did well in my studies. I don't close myself to anything. I liked reading and I still love learning. I loved history and German.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Reading, School, Thinking

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor.  Why should it?  The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government.  The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.  Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, War, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• If there's been any use of nerve gas it's the rebels that used it. If there has been a use of chemical weapons it was Al-Qaeda that used the chemical weapons - who gave al-Qaeda the chemical weapons? Here's my theory, Israel gave them the chemical weapons.

  George Galloway

  Israel, Nerves, Use

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• Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed. But I'm still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean I'm not still a rebel and that I don't want to go in the face of convention and challenge the system. I never wanted to think in a robotic way, and I don't want my children to think that way, either.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Mother, Children, Mean

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• Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand.

  Allan Kozinn

  Hands, Sound, Would Be

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• The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Forgiveness, Thinking, Spirals

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• Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

  Jean Cocteau

  Laughing, Joining, Conservative

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• When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Player, Care, Authority

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up before approaching an editor. The best introduction to an editor is your own written work, published or not. I traveled across Siberia on my own money before ever approaching an editor; I wrote my first book, Siberian Dawn, without knowing a single editor, with no idea of how to get it published. I had to risk my life on the Congo before selling my first magazine story. If the rebel spirit dwells within you, you won't wait for an invitation, you'll invade and take no hostages.

  Jeffery Taylor

  Book, Writing, Successful

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• A leader is only able to lead others because he disciplines himself. The person who does not know how to bow to discipline imposed from without, who does not know how to obey, will not make a good leader-nor will the one who has not learned to impose discipline within his own life. Those who scorn scripturally or legally constituted authority, or rebel against it, rarely qualify for high leadership positions.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Discipline, Leader, Doe

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• When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, People, Needs

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.450, University of Illinois Press

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• America is a land of creators and rebels.

  Jose Marti

  Land, America, Creator

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