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Germaine Greer Quotes

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: australian
Birth: January 29, 1939

Topics

Human Right Human Beings Themselves

The road to energy efficiency is, in theory, a sustainability sweepstake. More efficiency means that less fuel is required to generate a given amount of energy, which in turn means lower costs for the provider and cheaper prices for the customers.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Road Energy Efficiency Sustainability

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

Culture World You Look Why See

Put on a sweater and really great sneakers with a big scarf, and you'll look so stylish. For me, they are an everyday essential.

Great Me Stylish You Look Sneakers

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

Children World Accounting Generation

I want the undisputed career. I want the best damn career. I want to be the best guy ever to do this.

Best Career Want Damn Guy Ever

Comedy has allowed me to be my 100-percent-true self, as opposed to other places, where I feel like that's been a hindrance. Whether it's music or poetry or hosting, people want you to be something else: they want you to be packaged in a certain way.

Music Poetry People Me Self Comedy

Every time I am off the tennis tour, I go back home.

Home Time I Am Back Go Tennis

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

Respect Cinema Know Talk Just Would

Listen, I'm 41 years old. I've got two kids. I've got a career. The last thing I need to be doing is having a beef with A Tribe Called Quest. It's silly and it was unnecessary. It ain't the first time that a director hasn't seen eye to eye with a subject and it ain't going to be the last time.

Michael Rapaport

Time Eye Doing Silly Career Need

The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about being mugged or home invaded, what's the image of the perpetrator in our heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street - or is it someone who is, if not black, at least poor?

Home Live People Black Someone Down

I tell young teachers who are determined to dissent from some of the Draconian aspects of the current orthodoxy that the best form of protection is to be incredibly good at what you do and keep good discipline in class.

Good Discipline Best You Young Tell

There's nothing worse than not being excited about a trip.

Nothing Excited Being Worse Trip

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