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?
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Fashion is something which is non-lasting; it's ephemeral.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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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.
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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.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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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.
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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.
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
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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.
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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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.
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I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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When you have parents who are recognizable, there's a certain part of you that wants to know that people you meet are able to not get clouded by that.
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Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.
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I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city.
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I think it is a great gift to make people laugh, and it shouldn't be underestimated.
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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?
