"The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness."

-- Immanuel Wallerstein

#Rights Quotes #World Quotes #Language Quotes

“Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.”
“A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out.”
“I'm pushing myself in other, slower directions. Some of the stuff that I'm writing is not necessarily so speedy; it's a different kind of intense that I'm going for now, a more focused intensity. It's good to look at what you've done and think, "What have I not done?" That's why so many artists that have longer careers do change, and sometimes very abruptly, because if you're not interested, how the hell is anybody else supposed to be? If you're bored, everyone else is going to be too.”
“My friends, welcome to the other side of the rainbow”

Source : "Washington state legalizes same-sex marriage". www.sfgate.com. February 14, 2012.
“Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.”
“It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.”
“It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.”

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