Saul Alinsky (Saul David Alinsky) Quotes
There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.
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Army life don't agree with me.
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What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.
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It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.
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Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
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It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.
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All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.
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To be successful, you really have to put your ego in the background and try to be diplomatic to achieve what you want to achieve.
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I really appreciate what it takes to create a book. I understand the loneliness that it involves and the excitement and the vulnerability: I especially identify with that.
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I'm obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don't feel totally guilty eating it. It's not as bad as ice cream, and during the hot summer months, it's a great way to just refresh.
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My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.
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When we read dystopia, we root for these people to break free because we are these people; hoping and fighting against things that are bigger than ourselves.
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Oh, Alexander Hamilton fell short of his best self every now and again, and he still managed to do these wonderful things - well, so do I. So what am I capable of?
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Every time you have a carrot instead of a cookie, every time you go to the gym instead of going to the movies, that's a costly investment in your health. But how much you want to invest is going to depend on how much longer you expect to live in the future, even if you don't make those investments.
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Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.
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Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
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I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.
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There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
