Gar Alperovitz Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.
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I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.
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Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.
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I'd love to play Wonder Woman.
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If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committing heinous crime, it only means that we have failed them as a society. We have failed to give them a safe, nurturing environment to ensure that they are well-balanced, useful persons in the society.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs (uses, institutions)
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If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.
