Paul Wellstone Quotes
What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
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My opinion, having done this now for two cycles, is I think the national media really likes me and likes what I have to say. But, at the end of the day, 'He's a Libertarian,' and that denotes some loose screws, maybe.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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When I first went to 'National Geographic,' I thought I was the least qualified person to step through the doors. But because of my parents and the culture of continual learning they imposed on us, I later came to believe I was the most qualified person who ever worked there.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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I think I have stopped being nervous about the outcome of a film. The five consecutive flops in 1997 and the five consecutive hits in 1999 have mellowed me in many ways.
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One of the things we need to do with North Korea, which is a rogue nation, is to get the international community in support of further sanctions, of keeping pressure on the North Korean regime.
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I can't imagine how hard it must be to invest in a community... when you don't feel heard and when you don't feel seen.
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I can assure you that during my tenure as his employee, Bob Ney was the hardest working man in Ohio and Washington. I can further assure you the work that he did and the decisions he made were done with integrity and the highest regard for his office and those he served.
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What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
