Saul Alinsky (Saul David Alinsky) Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I pledge to you today that for as long as I am your governor, I will not seek or accept any outside compensation from any source.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
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I think soul will always find its way into what I'm doing. It just comes from my root.
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Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
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The increasing diversification of media ecosystems after decades of state control, along with new digital tools that allow for greater citizen engagement, have led to a dramatic reshaping of the dynamics between citizens, media, and government.
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I like listening to it just as I like looking at a fuchsia drenched with rain.
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In the eighties, a self-assured knucklehead whose unsurpassable hollowness and hackneyed sentiments and absolute blindness to every historical complexity became the object of national worship and, esteemed as a 'great communicator' no less, won each of his two terms in a landslide.
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I would provide more opportunities for the kids of urban communities to go to school and learn trades - to get more jobs to take care of their families.
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Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
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Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
