Gar Alperovitz Quotes
There has been a change in consciousness that makes this one of the most interesting periods of American history, maybe the most interesting. There's a loss of belief in the corporate system; there's a recognition that something is fundamentally wrong, So there's an opening to a whole different vision of where to go forward. I think that's where we are in the question, so let's not blow it; let's see what we can develop over time.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.
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I wanted passionately to be a priest.
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They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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What is peace? Balance three iron skewers tip to tip, one upon the other; at the summit, emplace and egg, so that it too poises static in mid-air, and there you have the condition of peace in this world of men.
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I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
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Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.
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You must be wise, but not too wise.
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I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.
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I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that was scrimping by at times. We were watching the dollar, stretching the dollar, and coupons. It was all those things.
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I work from a deep sense of insecurity. I have the belief, and I can't shake it, that there are endless reasons to turn the channel. There are hundreds of channels and entirely other things to do besides TV. And if you make a bad television show there's no reason for the audience to come back the following week.
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Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.
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What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.
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The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.
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Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.
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Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret
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There has been a change in consciousness that makes this one of the most interesting periods of American history, maybe the most interesting. There's a loss of belief in the corporate system; there's a recognition that something is fundamentally wrong, So there's an opening to a whole different vision of where to go forward. I think that's where we are in the question, so let's not blow it; let's see what we can develop over time.
