Gil Scott-Heron Quotes

Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

Gil Scott-Heron

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 1, 1949 - May 27, 2011

Topics

PositivePeopleAmericaYouBadOut

If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.

Jerry Hall

GoodAgeExperienceDayMeLearn

We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

Melinda Gates

PlaceIntellectualStartedMostly

If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.

Matthew Davis

GoodPassionPeopleGrowLearnWay

I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It's upsetting.

Michael Irvin

FamilyFightI AmFriendsHelpKnow

Nixon's deep antipathy toward Jews is well known, and he took a strange satisfaction in having Kissinger in his inner circle, where he could periodically taunt him.

Robert Dallek

DeepCircleSatisfactionStrangeHim

The NSA is not listening to anyone's phone calls. They're not reading any Americans' e-mails. They're collecting simply the data that your phone company already has, and which you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy, so they can search that data quickly in the event of a terrorist plot.

Tom Cotton

ListeningReadingSearchDataYou

I just love getting dirty.

Robin Wright

LoveDirtyJustGetting

During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.

Michelle Malkin

SummerDeserveConservativeHeatUp

Russia can become a strategic partner in a fight against international terrorism.

Milos Zeman

FightPartnerTerrorismBecome

I thought I never wanted to be on TV. I was dead wrong. I'm almost always dead wrong about the things I think I want, vs. when I just go with the flow, I'm always happy where I end up.

Dax Shepard

HappyThinkThoughtEndWrongWant

A lot of directors, they're creative, but they're different.

Chris Tucker

CreativeDifferentLotDirectors

Special-purpose dogs have been a critical component for police and military work in the current war on terror. These dogs are some of the bravest animals on the planet.

Brandon Webb

WorkPoliceWarAnimalsMilitary

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