Prashad Quotes

#1. For privileged people, equality in an unequal world is a bonanza.

Vijay Prashad

#2. Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

Elisabeth Elliot

#3. Whatever behavior you've experienced from people in the past, expect them to do it again and again and again.

Merrill Markoe

#4. I am quite willing to be the blind instrument of higher ends. To give one's life for the cause is nothing. But to have one's illusions destroyed - that is really almost more than one can bear.

Joseph Conrad

#5. I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.

Steven Hatfill

#6. If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#7. I can't rationalize the brilliance and knowledge that you have about the intricacies of the market with the crazy bullshit I see you do each night.

Jon Stewart

#8. I live for CAN-ing other people's can'ts.

Steven Tyler

#9. Beauty is at once a royal path to God and an impediment to reaching God if it is taken as a god in itself.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#10. Women are "hypergamous." This means they seek men of higher status than themselves. Even the most ardent heterosexual feminist only can love someone more powerful than she. Needless to say the higher she rises, the slimmer the pickings.

Henry Makow

#11. It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

David Bailey

#12. I use sunscreen every single day, even if I'm not going outside in the sun, because I'm near a window. I can always get those UV rays on my face, so I always apply sunscreen on my face and neck. It's like brushing my teeth: I feel weird if I don't apply sunscreen.

Michelle Phan

#13. I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.

Marilyn Manson

#14. love is a poverty you couldn't sell

Beck

#15. The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Vijay Prashad

#16. I have a lot of celebrity friends. But they're all Hollywood friends. You can't call them if you fall over and break your leg, but if you're having a BBQ and wanna chitchat, you hang out with them, or you go to their house.

Rebel Wilson

#17. The dominant classes in the South might divert the funds towards the creation of an America instead, with vastly well-off sector living in protected zones, separated from rest of the population by well crafted cordons sanitaires.

Vijay Prashad