Master Quotes

Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

Thomas Frank

FateChooseWallStreetMasterOur

The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.

Richard Serra

BookLearnYouBecomeMasterAbout

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Muhammad Ali

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The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse.

Lysander Spooner

LawHorseLaborWillHimMaster

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Kwame Nkrumah

PeaceWorldDestinySeriousMaster

I'm glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can't. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don't equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.

Kevin Costner

MyselfThinkYouMoviesMasterGlad

To gain the competitive edge, companies must master the ability to innovate.

Hilary Mason

EdgeAbilityMasterCompetitiveGain

I'm a master at getting as much in a day as possible.

Gillian Tans

DayPossibleMasterMuchGetting

I love having a master. I have no problem serving my director. That's my job. I want to make them happy.

Joaquin Phoenix

LoveJobHappyProblemWantMaster

Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.

Evan Osnos

PowerIdeasBornHimMasterMade

I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.

John Gurdon

AmazingBiologyStudentWorstMaster

Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

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Perhaps it should only be added that the Gorean master, though often strict, is seldom cruel. The girl knows, if she pleases him, her lot will be an easy one.

John Norman

GirlEasyWillSheHimMaster

Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle.

Charles Perrault

KingMasterThroughCastleLast

David Bowie, who spent most of the '70s establishing himself as a master of psychological disguises, is spending the '80s trying to convince us that he's just a regular fella - or at least as close to one as a millionaire pop star can be.

Robert Hilburn

TryingMasterConvinceStarUsJust

Because we are afraid of life, we seek to control or master it.

Alexander Lowen

LifeControlAfraidMasterSeek

In the mid-1800s, they were known also as 'singsong houses,' and the courtesans were actually master musicians.

Amy Tan

MusiciansMasterKnownHousesWere

I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto.

Alan Stern

ScienceCareerMasterStartedPluto

Not all eagles can be trained, but those who take to life with a master display intense loyalty. Although they are not tethered, they always return after killing their prey.

Stephen Kinzer

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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Thomas Aquinas

KnowledgeStartBelievingMasterMay

The Ramones were inspiring a lot of bands that couldn't master their instruments.

Tommy Ramone

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The violin is my mistress, but the guitar is my master.

Niccolo Paganini

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When first we met we did not guess That Love would prove so hard a master.

Robert Bridges

LoveProveFirstHardMasterWould

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

James A. Garfield

MoneyCountryMasterIndustryVolume

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