A Quotes
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“Any move you make
Moves you.
Whether craved or feared.
Any change changes you.”
“Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.”
“Any movement that has been successful in this country for Black liberation has included old and young, men and women, and people not of color that understand their superiority complex, that understand White supremacy, and that internalize that, sort that out, and heal from that in order that they might help, because there are some people of color that are not on our side.”
“Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature - screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon - the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.”
“Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.”
“Any movie that gets made is a miracle. A good one is the second coming.”
Source: Confessions of a Hollywood Nobody
“Any movie you see, if Tom Cruise is in an action movie or whatever it is, The Avengers, there's going to be a kick-ass female character. Usually one. And there's a term for this, but I don't know what it is. But someone's coined a term where there's one female character who's incredibly tough and strong and just as good as the guys at whatever it is they’re doing, and usually wearing black, skin-tight clothes, and [she] has no personality whatsoever, and is not funny.”
“Any movie's only as good as the director.”
“Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.”
“Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden - you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha.”
“Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.”
Source: Return to Wholeness: Embracing Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Face of Cancer
“Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.”
“Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.”
Source: The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays
“Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.”
“Any musician who has not experienced - I do not say understood, but truly experienced - the necessity of dodecaphonic music is USELESS. For his whole work is irrelevant to the needs of his epoch.”
“Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.”
“Any musician with a slight level of self-awareness can be taught to write a 'good' song. A great song is completely original. It feels as if the performer is the only person who could bring it to life.”
“any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.”
“Any Name of God in any language is worthy of respect but the original Name of God in the Semitic language is Allah. This (Semitic) is the language of the celestial entities. It is by this Name that the angels call upon God and it is attached to the Title of every Prophet.”
“Any narrative that we write is a narrative that we will eventually need to be saved from, with the exception of this one.”
“Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.”
“Any nation must be concerned that its obligations do not outrun its capabilities. A middle power such as Canada must be particularly careful to ration its commitments.”
“Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide.”
“Any nation that allows the government to dominate its monetary and economic policies will ultimately suffer grave consequences.”
“Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.”
“Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation.”
“Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousand years attain greatness.”
Source: The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.”
“Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family.”
“Any nation that wants to have a global voice and build value for its citizens has to nurture a digital transformation culture where government, businesses, institutions and universities work together to nurture a solid social impact driven ecosystem. The concept is anchored in the idea of the tech innovation can create new tech driven cities driven by a startup culture applied to a country and its potential for new creation of jobs and narrative.”
Source: 4IR AI Blockchain Fintech IoT - Reinventing a Nation
“Any nation that wishes to enjoy the fruits of development and civilization, must follow the golden rules of this scripture as a national policy and culture.”
“Any nation which for an extended period puts pleasure before liberty is likely to lose the liberty it misused.”
“Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
“Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise”
“Any negative belief system will key into your survival instincts and perpetuate the idea that if you don’t follow this belief, you may be unable to survive. It tricks you into believing that nothing will be left of you if you change. The second trick of negative or fear-based beliefs is that they may tell you that it is impossible to change and there is no way out. It traps you in a vicious cycle.”
Source: Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“Any negative feedback stings, but feedback that doesn’t align with who you are at your core can hurt even worse because you feel misunderstood. How you react to the feedback and what you do afterwards will impact your career trajectory at the company. Your first instinct may be to rebut, defend, or explain the behaviors that led to the feedback. But perceptions don’t change because of explanations or more information; they change over time after you adjust your actions and behaviors.”
“Any negative review you write, they'll say, "Oh, you're being so mean." I think the problem with a lot of criticism is that too many critics either write just description or they write in a Mandarin jargon that only a handful of people can understand, or they write happy criticis - everything is good that they write about. I think that's really not good. I think it's damaged a lot of our critical voices.”
“Any negative thought will give rise to negative vibrations which tend to reach an individual even before you open your mouth! So, entertain positive thoughts about individuals you want to build relations with.”
Source: Voyage to Happiness!
“Any negotiation has a limit.
Otherwise, war is irrelevant.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables him to really take a firm, uncompromising, militant stand on problems that confront our people.”
“Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.”
“Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.”
“Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.”
“Any new gun control is simply gonna infringe on the law-abiding ability to exercise constitutional rights. There's not a single law that could be written, that has been written, that could be passed that would stop Omar Mateen from getting a gun and shooting people up.”
“Any new ideas go into PiL. My inspiration is everything that the human being gets up to. I don't listen to any music when I'm in PiL-zone, because influences can poison your well. Otherwise, I listen to anything.”
“Any new life skill is worthy learning as you do not have an idea when it will make a big difference.”
“Any new pathway to citizenship is completely off the table ... [Illegal immigrants should be able to get citizenship] the same way as any other immigrant has to do it ... You have to apply for legal permanent residence, be it family-based or employment-based. You shouldn't be treated worse than the people doing it the right way, but I think it would be unconscionable for us to treat them better than the people who are doing it the right way.”
“Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.”
“Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world.”
“Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.”