Will Self Quotes

Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via the quiescence of the electorate as much as its convictions.

Will Self

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 26, 1961

Topics

PowerPoliticalMoreNeverStripes

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Andy Warhol

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In his State of the Union speech in January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt declared America's commitment to Four Freedoms in the struggle against Nazi totalitarianism. Among them was the freedom from fear.

Robert Dallek

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Fox News has a very-high-income audience, and I think that any business channel automatically draws that. We're not gonna reach for a lower financial demographic.

Roger Ailes

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Rush Limbaugh

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I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.

Molly Crabapple

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I believe in adventure and imagination, and I got that from my parents and the things I experienced as a child.

Mirai Nagasu

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I'm a big sports fan in general.

Luke Bryan

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I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

Joseph Stiglitz

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Society may shun bohemia, may put it down, may consider it useless and ineffective, but it is where everything cooks and boils and is created.

Donovan

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In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.

Brendan I. Koerner

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When you are suddenly standing in front of a bunch of journalists being asked what it's like being a British Olympic legend, it's a bit much to take in.

Bradley Wiggins

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We all say things that we later regret.

Bruce Braley

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