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Antonio Gramsci Quotes

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

Antonio Gramsci

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: italian
Birth: January 22, 1891 - April 27, 1937

Topics

Strength Knowledge You Wall Head

I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.

Joan Cusack

Time People Luck Think Matter Out

There's a way that white people and black people spoke in the '70s that is nothing like how they speak now. They spoke from a soul, actually. There's a singsongy way of walking and talking that's just different now.

Michael Jai White

Soul People Speak Black Walking Way

I constantly want to know - what is a table, or what is a cat?

Simon McBurney

Table Know Want Cat Constantly

My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfather died, she went to a conservative synagogue and a little later ended up in a reform synagogue. My father was in reform synagogues from the beginning.

Judith Butler

Father Mother Beginning Parents She

People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.

Dionne Warwick

Music People Long Career Bring Been

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn't either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.

Bryan Robson

Me Road Think Trying Down Jump

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

William Hazlitt

Better Nothing Write Able Read Than

I'm a sucker for a love song!

Sharon Van Etten

Love Song Sucker

You look at Governor Romney's record in the private sector, he helped turn businesses around. Certainly a decade ago he took what would have been an international disaster with the U.S. Olympics, and turned it around for America and made us great again with the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Scott Walker

Great City America You Lake Look

Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.

Twyla Tharp

Relationship Experience Survive Think

There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.

Richard Jefferies

People World Will Endure First Rush

We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House.

Kevin McCarthy

Constitution House Know Strings