Gar Alperovitz Quotes

We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership of banks - there's a whole series of these that attempt to fill the small-scale infrastructure that can build up to a larger theoretical vision.

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• Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Dying
  • Circumstances

• In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • World
  • Picture
  • Club

• I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Time
  • Die
  • Walk

• It's not even about being negative. It's just being unsettled, unsatisfied, unfinished.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Negative
  • Unsatisfied
  • Just Being

• Russian efforts and the direct efforts of ...(Russian special envoy) Viktor Chernomyrdin have not found the understanding and proper support of NATO leadership

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Support
  • Understanding
  • Leadership

• We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.

  

  Longchenpa
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Reality

• There is no better designer than nature.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Nature
  • Designer

• Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history ..... Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Remember
  • History

• The best revenge is to live well.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Live
  • Best
  • Revenge

• I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehicles.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Want
  • Life is

• He stole my music but he gave me my name.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Music
  • Name
  • Stole

• Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it the most.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • Family
  • Love
  • Deserve

• And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do. I used to say that I believed it was important to tell people about Jesus, but I never did. A friend kindly explained that if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say. We live for what we believe.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Language
  • Writer
  • Translated

• Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

  

  William H. Whyte
  • Action
  • Pressure
  • Neighborhood

• I'm calling my initiative take the other to lunch. If you are a Republican, you can take a Democrat to lunch or if you're a Democrat, think of it as taking a Republican to lunch because there is no shortage of the other right in your own neighborhood, maybe that person who worships at the mosque or the church or the synagogue down the street or someone from the other side of the abortion conflict - or maybe your brother-in-law who doesn't believe in global warming.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Church
  • Republican
  • Democrat

• We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership of banks - there's a whole series of these that attempt to fill the small-scale infrastructure that can build up to a larger theoretical vision.

  

  Gar Alperovitz
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