Quotes About Defiance

If someone was ever racist towards me, I would go wild.

I was wild. My mother couldn't control me.

There is something about my mother that drives her critics slightly potty, so they resort to wild invention to get at her.

I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.

Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted the temptation to leave Cuba and, in some cases, defied any suggestion they were tempted in the first place. Most famously, Teofilo Stevenson rejected multi-million dollar offers to leave his island to fight Muhammad Ali.

If I'm left to my own devices, I will be tempted to make the most unlistenable music possible.

I mean, I tend to do my own thing, and that usually crosses purposes with everyone around me.

When you have a film that's acclaimed, there's a tendency to go big or get serious or something, but I had an impulse to do the opposite.

My grandma would say if someone else calls you a hillbilly, you might need to punch them in the nose. But if we call ourselves hillbillies, it's a sort of a term of endearment, something that we have co-opted.

I have got pictures all around the rooms I sit in. I have got a very mad picture of a dog standing on a black thing on a piece of rope. It was drawn and painted by a Romanian poet who was under house arrest, and it is terrific.

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

I will fight to the last breath, even though my family cowers in terror in the palace.

Let there be no doubt: we will be tough on terror wherever it strikes.

The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

We can't be dominated by ruthless terrorism and the American principle is that we never will be.

Terrorism should be struck down with an iron hand.

Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.

There is one thing on which Arik will make no concessions: terrorism.

Londoners, Mancunians, and Brits across the country will never, ever be cowed by terrorism.

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists.

What the terrorists want is to scare us and fill us with dread.

C'mon now, I'm not going to make it easy for the terrorists to get me.

We must precisely do what the terrorists prevent us to do.