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.Saul Alinsky
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
E. V. Lucas -
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.
J. D. Vance -
Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
Earl Butz -
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
A. S. Byatt -
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.
Zeresenay Alemseged -
Army life don't agree with me.
Eddie Slovik
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What I find most exciting about online video is that it's the future.
Dana Brunetti -
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.
Barry Zito -
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.
Barry Ritholtz -
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.
Rachel Kushner -
All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.
Jack Kerouac -
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.
Ken Adam
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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.
Bill Clegg -
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.
Caroline Sunshine -
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.
Lesli Linka Glatter -
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.
Ally Condie -
I feel like my job as a storyteller and director is to create an experience where the audience forgets they're in a cinema and can get lost in the story. Things popping out of the screen call attention to the artifice of what you're doing, so I use 3D as more of a window into a world behind the screen.
Lee Unkrich -
I travel a lot. I'll go back and forth, you know, West Coast-East Coast, but it's separated by segments. So it's not a daily thing.
Fred Armisen
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Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.
Jennifer Saunders -
I was recently appointed by President Obama to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. I am so excited that the President trusts me to advise him on things that are important to people with disabilities!
Lauren Potter -
I guess really having a good support group around me and talking about what I've gone through is important.
April Rose -
Jesus heals your PAST, is your very PRESENT help and takes care of your FUTURE.
Joseph Prince -
A mom can't afford to be sick.
Tamra Davis -
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.
Saul Alinsky