Gene Sharp Quotes
The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression.
Gene Sharp
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
Magic Johnson
I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
Rami Malek
Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
Walter Annenberg
People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.
Kara Walker
I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
Vanessa Bayer
Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.
Rachel Dratch
I'd rather be involved and somebody say, 'Hey, coach, here's what I need you to do. Go down to the D-League and work with guys'... I want the D-League coach to learn how to be a head coach.
Larry Brown
Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.
Padma Lakshmi
Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.
Daniel Cormier
To me, spirituality means 'no matter what.' One stays on the path, one commits to love, one does ones work; one follows one's dream; one shares, tries not to judge, no matter what.
Yehuda Berg
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.
Eddie Trunk
'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.
Ian Anderson
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
Anthony Trollope
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
Elizabeth Warren
And you know, it was like I was breathing my own self back into me to say these word,s to remember that these things existed--the green trees of the eastern woodland at home in North America, their strong and supple branches, sunlight through the trees.
Elizabeth Wein
The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression.
Gene Sharp
