Malcolm X Quotes

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

Malcolm X

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965

Topics

LifeMeStartUniverseAmericanYou

'Sesame Street' early on and then 'Little House on the Prairie' was a big deal in our house. I always identified with 'Little House' because they were wanderers, and there was something about being an immigrant.

John Cho

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Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Soichiro Honda

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I know that people hate me. And I know I'm just a hack journalist and what we do on 'Lifestyles' isn't what you would call television brain surgery.

Robin Leach

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If you don't have the rights, you can't do the show.

Roone Arledge

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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

Mike Tyson

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Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

Milton Glaser

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I became a wrestling fan in college. So, I was more of a wrestling fan as an adult than when I was a little kid.

Judah Friedlander

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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Josh Billings

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Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

Donald Rumsfeld

GoodGovernmentPeopleNewWill

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

Conrad Hall

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The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'

Bob Harper

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As we do our work in D.C., we should do our work in collaboration and in partnership, in cohesion with states so that we can work on environmental issues from Superfund to air quality to water quality across the full spectrum in things that we do in partnership with those folks.

Scott Pruitt

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