Referendum 2020 Quotes & Sayings

The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual. — Pankaj Mishra

If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening. — Paulo Coelho

But somewhere within each of us, buried at varying depths depending on the age and degree of neglect or abuse, shame or coercion we endured, there is a resistant, daydreaming, rebellious, creative, unique child
a true self who is waiting. — Gloria Steinem

Real leaders don't care [about receiving credit]. If it's about your mission, about spreading the faith, about seeing something happen, not only do you not care about credit, you actually want other people to take credit ... There's no record of Martin Luther King, Jr. or Gandhi whining about credit. Credit isn't the point. Change is. — Seth Godin

She could only do what farmers had done for time out of mind; tend her crops, care for her livestock and help her neighbors when and as she could. — Michael Tinker Pearce

I feel that in all kids that I've came across, that at the age of 12-13 is a big transition . They begin forming the Young Adult there going to become, here molding . I can't put a "name" on it but it's something. Your trying to find yourself, were getting ready to go to High School and as this world teaches you, you must "belong" to something. (So we Belong to Something) — Richard Cabral

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets. — Karel Reisz

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. — Stephen Hawking

I was like, 'Huh? You want my jersey?' — Shaquille O'Neal

No," said Arthur, "no," he added thoughtfully. "No," he added again, even more thoughtfully. "What?" he said at last. — Douglas Adams

Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a bit? — Pico Iyer

Valentino was apparently gay or bisexual. And his two lesbian wives. But without any question, he had sex with men. From choice. So he was one or the other. — Cesar Romero

There are times in a person's life when he or she must make a choice to believe. I choose to believe the sun will rise tomorrow. I also choose to believe that if you go to bed hungry you will wake up ready to eat. I've met a group of men in a faraway country who choose to believe that if you stand on a tree stump for an hour you will gain sympathy for trees. I am already quite sympathetic to trees, so I choose to think they are bonkers. — Obert Skye

No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three people in our field. — Howard Gardner