Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benedict Cumberbatch

I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

Beau Willimon

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

August Wilson

The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws and practices that deny us access to the tools necessary for productive and industrious life, are available to any serious student of history or sociology.

Audre Lorde

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

Audre Lorde

I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result of my blackness as well as my womaness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.

Audre Lorde

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Arthur Scargill

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

Arne Duncan

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.

Antony Sher

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

David Walliams

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

David Rosen

The current treatment of animals in the livestock trade definitely renders the consumption of meat as halachically unacceptable as the product of illegitimate means. ... As it is halachically prohibited to harm oneself and as healthy, nutritious vegetarian alternatives are easily available, meat consumption has become halachically unjustifiable.

David Rockwell

Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.

David Rockwell

In our highly mediated, technologically driven world, we're all looking for meaningful ways to connect. This has constantly inspired me to create environments full of lively, immersive, experiential elements specifically crafted to foster human connection.

David Rockwell

I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.

David Rockefeller

A museum has to renew its collection to be alive, but that does not mean we give on important old works.

David Rockefeller

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

David Riesman

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

David Riesman

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

Audre Lorde

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Aziz Ansari

You’re a feminist if you go to a Jay Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’re not like, ‘Mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should get 23 percent less money than Jay Z.'

Miley Cyrus

I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything,

Carla Bruni

We don't need to be feminist in my generation.

Barbara Smith

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

Samir Husni

Ms. did well at the height of the feminist movement and then it faded. Ms. was aimed at a need, that women needed to prove themselves. Cosmo is not something women need. It's something women desire.

Diane Wakoski

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

Louis C. K.

Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?

Carl Bernstein

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.