Jonathan Powell Quotes

Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.

Jonathan Powell

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BecomeMilitaryPoliticiansInvolved

If you don't love it, don't touch it.

Jenifer Lewis

LoveYouTouch

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.

John Cheever

MindUnderstandSleepingCapricious

Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

Maynard James Keenan

PeopleHurtBecauseArtistsInsane

We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.

Maynard James Keenan

MusicTogetherPeoplePerfectCreate

Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.' So I was the girl who wasn't dating and would just text. I dated these guys who didn't have jobs, and I would always be paying. At one point, I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, 'You're too pretty and cool to be treated like this.'

Meghan Trainor

GirlMirrorDatingCoolGrowing Up

An artist is his own fault.

John O'Hara

ArtistFaultOwnHis

Communism everywhere has paid the price of rigidity and dogmatism. Freedom has the strength of compassion and flexibility. It has, above all, the strength of intellectual honesty.

Robert Kennedy

StrengthHonestyFreedomCompassion

Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

Ann Cotton

LifeChangeFailureGivingTrying

There are so many possibilities of life out there that an alien doesn't have to have green, long tentacles. They can be very similar to us.

Matt Lanter

LifeGreenPossibilitiesLongAlien

Solitude begets whimsies.

Mary Wortley Montagu

SolitudeBegets

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Mason Cooley

RootsGhettoFaithfulLiberalStay

I feel like the great filmmakers who have a true voice, yeah they take the notes, they understand the notes, but it's really about the notes underneath the notes. When you do a test screening and somebody says, 'Well, I didn't like the love story,' but it was probably just too long.

Louis Leterrier

LoveGreatVoiceStoryFeelYou

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