Gar Alperovitz Quotes

We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments?

Gar Alperovitz

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• Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • Nature
  • Education

• I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Forever

• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Words
  • Attention
  • Behavior

• If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Never
  • Capable
  • Cricket

• I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Trying
  • My Life

• Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Art
  • Memories
  • Lies

• We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Live
  • Hate
  • Violence

• An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Political
  • Performance

• My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Job
  • Actor
  • Fame

• I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Books
  • Numbers

• At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Party
  • Dinner
  • New Years

• I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.

  

  Kai Bird
  • People
  • Up
  • Love

• I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Only a dad with a tired face,Coming home from the daily race,Bringing little of gold or fameTo show how well he has played the game;But glad in his heart that his own rejoiceTo see him come and to hear his voice.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Game

• My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Work
  • War
  • Words

• By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.

  

  James Forrestal
  • World
  • Country
  • Leadership

• It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Important
  • Political

• I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.

  

  Neko Case
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• The world could burn around her, the cities turn to dust, the cries of a hundred thousand fill the air, and she would get up after the fire died and walk barefoot and burned over the charred soil in search of clean water, a weapon, a purpose. She would rebuild.

  

  Kameron Hurley
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• As far as 'Twilight' goes, I'm in love with my character. I'm in love with the whole series. I love doing the fan conventions around the world, I love to travel. So wherever it fits in, I'd love to continue doing that for the rest of my life. Just meeting the fans who made everything possible from around the world.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Life
  • World
  • Character

• The fans and supporters are also part of the Olympic family.

  

  Bill Toomey
  • Family

• I've been watching a lot of cable shows like 'The Wire' and 'Breaking Bad' and 'Downton Abbey.' I love how real the moments are.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Moments

• We need to learn to listen to what the people need and want and not try to impose on them a whole schema that they may not. This is historically difficult stuff: how do we balance the project of raising consciousness, advancing a vision of utopia, with the real and honest engagement in real-world experiments?

  

  Gar Alperovitz
  • People
  • Real
  • Consciousness