A Quote by David Starkey

I've always challenged authority.

David Starkey

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Always Authority Challenged

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David Starkey
English - Historian
Born: January 3, 1945

You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.

Greg Graffin

I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

Lorne Michaels

The authority of a life for Christ always has greater influence than the authority of talking. A young person can possess all of the benefits of authority - influence, respect, and strength - just by following Jesus wherever he leads.

Mike Yaconelli

The script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility and always, always questioned authority, because without it authority often goes unchecked.

George Clooney

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

Denis Leary

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Rupert Everett

I fight authority and authority always wins.

John Mellencamp

I think, as an artist, it's very important to continue to be challenged and feel challenged all the time.

Joshua Bell

A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government - it's like the existence of another authority.

Stephen Colbert

Some people are physically or mentally challenged. I'm emotionally challenged!

Rupali Ganguly

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

Gabriel Marcel

I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.

Stephen Fry

The characters get challenged. Through getting challenged, the character arrives at insights or discovers potentials that he or she didn't know they had.

Eckhart Tolle

I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.

J. K. Simmons

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Herman Kahn

I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.

Dr. Dre

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