Posts Tagged ‘Truth’

January 22nd, 2012 Author Types, Authors, L, Politician No Comments »

Lin Biao

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don’t.
Lin Biao

Taking the entire globe, if North America and Western Europe can be called the ‘cities of the world’, then Asia, Africa and Latin America constitute ‘the rural areas of the world’.
Lin Biao

In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world’s population.
Lin Biao

 

January 20th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, F, Musician No Comments »

Frank Black

Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won’t bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records.
Frank Black

People go back to the stuff that doesn’t cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don’t have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library.
Frank Black

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
Frank Black

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That’s their job.
Frank Black

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I’ll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y’know, just see where roads lead.
Frank Black

 

January 18th, 2012 Author Types, Authors, D, Entertainer No Comments »

David Blaine

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
David Blaine

My only fear is the unknown.
David Blaine

I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.
David Blaine

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.
David Blaine

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
David Blaine

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.
David Blaine

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself… I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.
David Blaine

 

January 16th, 2012 Activist, Author Types, Authors, S No Comments »

Steven Biko

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.
Steven Biko

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior.
Steven Biko

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.
Steven Biko

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
Steven Biko

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift – a more human face.
Steven Biko

Being black is not a matter of pigmentation – being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
Steven Biko

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
Steven Biko

The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Steven Biko

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can’t care anyway.
Steven Biko

Black man, you are on your own.
Steven Biko

December 27th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Musician, R No Comments »

Richard Berry

There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it’s only temporary.
Richard Berry

If I told you the words, you wouldn’t believe them anyway.
Richard Berry

 

December 27th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, C, Journalist No Comments »

Carl Bernstein

The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.
Carl Bernstein

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
Carl Bernstein

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
Carl Bernstein

 

December 27th, 2011 Actor, Author Types, Authors, P No Comments »

Peter Berg

Truth is, we offered it to Tom Hanks, which pretty much every movie in America does, but Tom passed. Billy Bob said that Hanks recently called and said he’s voting for all of us for Oscars, he loved the film.
Peter Berg

What kind of town do we want in the future, and how are we going to plan on that?
Peter Berg

It’s always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.
Peter Berg

Michael Mann’s always been one of my heroes.
Peter Berg

Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I’d always be saying ‘No, less, less’.
Peter Berg

When I look back at it, I’m mostly amazed at how poorly it was shot. David Kelley is a great writer, and I thought the scripts were great, but it just looks so cheap.
Peter Berg

There’s a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he’s sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him.
Peter Berg

You might make a lot of money, but it’s very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better – and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself.
Peter Berg

 

December 17th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, I, Musician No Comments »

Irving Berlin

Never hate a song that’s sold a half million copies.
Irving Berlin

The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin

After you get what you want you don’t want it.
Irving Berlin

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Irving Berlin

There’s no people like show people.
Irving Berlin

I got lost but look what I found.
Irving Berlin

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
Irving Berlin

You’re not sick you’re just in love.
Irving Berlin

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin

Talent is only the starting point.
Irving Berlin

There’s no business like show business.
Irving Berlin

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
Irving Berlin

June 23rd, 2011 Author Types, Authors, N, Philosopher No Comments »

Nikolai Berdyaev

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
Nikolai Berdyaev

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
Nikolai Berdyaev

June 20th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, B, Historian No Comments »

Bernard Berenson

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
Bernard Berenson

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
Bernard Berenson

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
Bernard Berenson

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
Bernard Berenson

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
Bernard Berenson

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one’s training.
Bernard Berenson

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
Bernard Berenson

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Bernard Berenson

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
Bernard Berenson