Paulo Freire Quotes

At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me.

Paulo Freire

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: brazilian
  • Birth: September 19, 1921 - May 2, 1997

Topics

WorkEducationMePlaceSatisfaction

I think that with any emotion - fear, love, nervousness - if the actor's feeling it, then the audience feels it.

Jessica Chastain

LoveFearThinkFeelingActorThen

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

John Hawkes

MorningDayWake UpLovedYouNever

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Robert Rauschenberg

PaintingLookingWithoutFamiliar

Nothing - and, I repeat, nothing - can affect what you build with sheer hard work. You either wait for people to define your worth or you define it with your own actions. I believe in the latter.

Mawra Hocane

WorkHard WorkPeopleWaitBelieve

Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.

Sophie Okonedo

CharacterLookI CanGoActorWay

I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of pressure on yourself to create, and to be generating information, and trying to be funny, but if you just listen to what's being said to you, and then react honestly, you generally get better results.

Rob Riggle

FunnyLoveYourselfListeningKey

Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.

Michel Onfray

PurposeReligionOnlyFactIn Fact

As a young artist working in multiple mediums, the work and especially the writings of artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy were very important to me.

Miranda July

WorkMeArtistImportantYoungVery

My father has never once asked me a question, any question. There's a freedom that came from that. It allowed me to create my own way of thinking.

Douglas Coupland

FatherFreedomMeThinkingCreate

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get the chance because they look at me and say, 'Oh, he's this type,' and they stamp me.

Armie Hammer

CharacterMeControlDriveChance

I can't express how wonderful it is to get feedback when you've been sort of in a bubble working on something and then you release it to the world and hope for the best. It's like the birth of a musical baby.

Susanna Hoffs

HopeBestBabyWorldFeedbackYou

Most musicians are normal people who want to hang out and are really down to earth.

Sharon Van Etten

PeopleMusiciansDownEarthWant

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