Lemn Sissay Quotes

I have spent most of my adult life proving that I existed. A blog is an accessible way of doing this - there is a date and place in cyberspace that I existed a year ago, to the day, and the proof is still there.

Lemn Sissay

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LifeDayDoingYearPlaceWay

There's something about approaching universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere, and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

Jim Croce

LifeSimplicityMeGuitarReachYou

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event.

Anatoly Karpov

ChildrenI AmThinkingChessMore

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

Robert Rauschenberg

RelationshipMyselfStrugglePain

I was on the Johnny Carson show, I believe 114 or 104 times. And aside from those times on the air, I never spoke to him. I never met him.

Tony Randall

BelieveI BelieveNeverHimAirMet

Our teachers are responsible for our children's welfare for the six or eight hours they are at school and we need to know without question that their safety will be paramount on the minds of teachers, faculty and volunteers.

Mike Fitzpatrick

ChildrenSchoolSafetyKnowWill

Interreligious dialogue is extremely important for religious people as well as secular people or non-believers. They should participate, and they should be encouraged to have interreligious dialogue, because dialogue is a channel or an instrument to promote intimacy between individual.

Lobsang Tenzin

PeopleImportantIntimacyIndividual

I didn't really get any rigorous background in film history.

Joshua Oppenheimer

HistoryFilmGetBackgroundReally

Good music is timeless, whether it's a country song, rock, or R&B.

Diana DeGarmo

GoodMusicSongCountryRock

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

Denise Mina

CrimeWittyRealBeingScotland

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

HistoryIdeasBetterLongBadRun

I so want to be able to speak another language. I love the way my friends who are half Italian and half English break from one language into another without even pausing.

Princess Eugenie of York

LoveSpeakLanguageFriendsWant

There's a popular image of people who don't save for the future as lacking in self-control. But the reason saving is so hard has less to do with self-control and more to do with a scarcity of attention.

Sendhil Mullainathan

FuturePeopleAttentionHardImage

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