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 -
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 -
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
Wally Lamb -
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
G. M. Trevelyan -
I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
Oliver Sacks -
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
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
Kate Smith -
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 -
I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
Patricia Cornwell -
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham -
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 -
I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.
Taylor Momsen
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By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.
James Forrestal -
It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.
Cyril Ramaphosa -
I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
Claire Tomalin -
One of my favorite directors is Clint Eastwood, and I hear about the way he works, and I think I'm of a similar style. Very few takes - you get what you take, and you move on. It's very much a job and work.
Jeff Nichols -
One of the most troubling things about the term 'fake news' is that it has become a force field against accusations you don't like.
Kevin Young -
You can make a beautiful, airtight world that's fascinating to look at, but it's not interesting unless you have a character that's trying to achieve something under the circumstances of that world. It's harder to play a wacky girlfriend whose journey you just don't understand.
Mackenzie Davis
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
Nat King Cole -
We in this entertainment industry try to act like we're so super powerful. we're not being honest, because we're human, and in our humanity there's a little fear.
Tasha Smith -
I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt.
Billy Carter -
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