William Greider Quotes

Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.

William Greider

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• My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • People
  • Change
  • Dad

• Marriage has made me safer.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Made

• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • America
  • Parents
  • Worked

• Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Yoga
  • Union
  • Dimensions

• It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Ideas
  • Feel
  • Weird

• In Chicago, they die for their teams.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Die
  • Chicago
  • Teams

• We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • World
  • You
  • Know

• Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Stop

• It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Me
  • Play
  • Album

• I'm learning every day.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Day
  • Learning
  • Everyday

• It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Air
  • Take
  • Sides

• I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Years
  • Doing
  • Coaching

• I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Morning

• Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Life
  • Death
  • Political

• Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Difference
  • Only

• I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'

  

  Natasha Little
  • Work
  • Done
  • Pretty

• I've inherited so much culture, beauty, and love, and I'm the perfect mix of Philomena.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Culture
  • Perfect

• Learn to thrill yourself. Affirm, 'Infinite Love fills my mind and thrills my body with its perfect life.' Make everything bright and beautiful about you. Cultivate aspirit of humor. Enjoy the sunshine.

  

  Baird T. Spalding
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Beautiful

• I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Book
  • True

• I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Want
  • Best
  • Car

• Democracy begins in human conversation. A democratic conversation does not require elaborate rules of procedure or utopian notions of perfect consensus. What it does require is a spirit of mutual respect-people conversing critically with one another in an atmosphere of honesty and shared regard.

  

  William Greider
  • Perfect
  • Democracy
  • Spirit