"I turned down the OBE because its not a club you want to join when you look at the villains whove got it. Its all the things I think are despicable: patronage, deferring to the monarchy and the name of the British Empire, which is a monument of exploitation and conquest."

-- Ken Loach

#Thinking Quotes #Names Quotes #Looks Quotes

“You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and on the other: You are obscurantist ignoramuses who'd like to shut down progress and drag us all back to the 16th century, with kings and priests telling us what to think.”
“You're not always going to be perfect, but I always try to be.”
“Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.”
“There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.”
“I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.”
“I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.”

Source : 2001 In In Style, Sep.
“I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.”
“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”

Source : 'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 25

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