Herbert Read Quotes

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

Herbert Read

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 4, 1893 - June 12, 1968

Topics

PositiveAttitudeTodayPolitical

I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.

Jeremy Corbyn

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There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

Anita Roddick

SuccessLiveYouAnswerDefineGot

I am a business owner. I'm a teacher. I think Justin's actually kind of plain, kind of nerdy. But when I morph into Alyssa, I'm like this... Well, this creature, everything that Justin couldn't be.

Alyssa Edwards

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Mitch McConnell, I'm going to light him up.

Steve Bannon

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To me, politics is a pile of tricks.

Tracy Morgan

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If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

Tom T. Hall

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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

Robert Benchley

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I used to say that winning the Oscar means being back at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 1 A.M. feeling empty. It's the industry voting. It doesn't come from God. It doesn't change your life, really.

Mike Nichols

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You cannot cover a ruin with a page of 'Pravda.'

Joseph Brodsky

YouPageRuinCannotCover

If you had told me in the Seventies and Eighties that TV would be as edgy or edgier than most films, and more intelligently written than most films, I wouldn't have believed it. There's great stuff out there.

Jonathan Banks

GreatMeYouEdgyMoreOut

I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.

Johnny Depp

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I eat more when I'm not training as much. But I get in the gym, and when I feel my gut, I try to eat healthy for some of my meals.

Chuck Liddell

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