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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To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
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The chaos and confusion during the waning days of the Kitzhaber administration, as well as the ensuing federal investigations into allegations of misconduct, caused Oregonians to question their faith in their governor and state government.
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In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.
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The three elements of creativity are thus: loving, knowing, and doing - or heart, mind, and hands - or, as Zen Buddhist teaching has it; great faith, great question, and great courage.
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If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don't just think it. Dare to compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others.
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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.
