Bebe Moore Campbell Quotes

I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

Bebe Moore Campbell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 18, 1950

Topics

ChangeJourneyMindReadingBehavior

I don't really know where my ideas come from. I start with a time and a place. That's what I need to get started, and an intellectual question.

Jennifer Egan

TimeIdeasStartPlaceKnowNeed

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

John Frusciante

MusicMyselfDayJobMeEvery Day

I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.

Maya Beiser

FatherMusicFriendsGoAlwaysUp

Demographics show that we are entering a battle between young and old. I call it the 'Age War.' The young want to hang onto their money to grow their families, businesses, and wealth. The old want the tax and investment dollars of the young to sustain their old age.

Robert Kiyosaki

AgeMoneyOld AgeWarGrowBattle

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

Angela Davis

FreedomPeopleWorldNameTarget

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

Michael Cerveris

PeopleMeExpectationsSurpriseFeel

While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

RomanticKnowYoungPatriotRealize

In my life, I have learned that most people want the same thing. They are not driven by class resentment. What they want most is to make a better life for themselves and their families - and to know that the opportunities for their children will be better than they were for themselves.

Rupert Murdoch

LifeChildrenPeopleOpportunities

Chrissie Hynde's from Ohio, and so am I. If there's a Cleveland sound, that's what it is.

Alice Ripley

SoundClevelandOhioAm

After I left the 'Daily Show,' I was kind of sitting out for five years. I know what it's like to not be able to have that platform for my voice the way I want it.

Wyatt Cenac

DailyVoiceKnowWantKindSitting

When I get in the studio the idea is just to work and bang out as many as I can.

Pitbull

WorkI CanOutGetJustIdea

I can tell when one of my songs is played on the radio because everybody just starts calling and texting me. It gets overwhelming because if you don't answer the right ones, they think you hate them, or you're ignoring them and are not friends anymore. It's all kind of crazy.

Thundercat

HateMeCrazyThinkFriendsYou

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