Ed Garvey Quotes
I'm most enthused by the younger people...and I wouldn't have said that two years ago. I spoke at two college campuses in Wisconsin and the students weren't interested. Public Service was a dirty word to them. Now they see it differently. They see you can come together and have a positive impact. I'm encouraged because they now see that we can win on these issues.
Quotes to Explore
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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If I can hit the ball the way I want to hit it on the range, I'd rather do that than play golf. I just love the feeling of hitting good golf shots.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.
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Technology is changing the way we interact as humans.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.
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I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
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What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
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You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.
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What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with.
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I'm most enthused by the younger people...and I wouldn't have said that two years ago. I spoke at two college campuses in Wisconsin and the students weren't interested. Public Service was a dirty word to them. Now they see it differently. They see you can come together and have a positive impact. I'm encouraged because they now see that we can win on these issues.
