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• If there's anything I think that you've seen about me, it's that I'm the rebellious girl.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Girl, Thinking, Ifs

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• I was very rebellious.

  Katey Sagal

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• Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

  Lionel Trilling

  Humor, Littles, Weapons

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• If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

  Leon Trotsky

  Art, Bridges, Hands

  Leon Trotsky (1925). “Literature and Revolution”, p.181, Haymarket Books

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• In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dream, Years, Giving

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

  Katey Sagal

  Art, Father, Thinking

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• Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Children, Dancing, Spoiled

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• I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong, Thinking, Stills

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• I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley -- the most beautiful, talented, rebellious nation in the history of Earth. And now, you're in your Vegas years. You've squeezed yourself into a white jumpsuit, you're wheezing your way through 'Love Me Tender' and you might be about to pass away bloated on the toilet. But you're still the King.

  John Oliver

  Beautiful, Kings, Thinking

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• One of the most rebellious things a woman can do is allow people to think she’s mean.

  Joan Rivers

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in The Bling Ring. I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.

  Taissa Farmiga

  Mom, Fun, Teenage

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• My personal style is eclectic, I would say. I always like to mix and match things. Uh, but the thing is that it changes every single day. So if I'm feeling you know a little more rebellious, one day I may dress a little more punk rock. But most of the time I say, pretty consistently, I'm feminine.

  Crystal Reed

  Rocks, Feelings, Style

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• We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Retirement, Adventure, Fire

  'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 1

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• A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.

  William C. Brown

  Enzymes, Facts, Doe

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• The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.

  Alison Lurie

  Children, Views, Shopping

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• The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.

  William C. Brown

  Criminals, Doe, Use

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• The poor should learn what has always been the motto of the rich: "What's mine is mine and what is yours if I can I steal it."

  William C. Brown

  Rich, Stealing, Motto

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• My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Character, Passionate Desire, Justice

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• Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

  John Mortimer

  Tragedy, Theatre, Farce

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• The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

  Jerry Rubin

  Sex, Revolution, Backseat

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Taken, Dull, Today

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Mind, World

  1900 The Voice of the People, bk.2, ch.4.

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• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Lying, Differences

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• A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Political, Doctrine, World

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2003). “A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century”, p.162, Routledge

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• Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

  Mariano Azuela

  Revolution, Bandits, Thinker

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