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I'm super supportive of locally grown foods and farmers. Here in L.A., I know all of my farmers markets and go there weekly.

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• My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.

  

  Zach Anner
  • True
  • Best
  • Rest

• Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Power
  • Man
  • Personality

• Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Light
  • Relationship
  • Green

• Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Why
  • Democracy

• I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Great
  • Music
  • Ideas

• I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • People
  • Think
  • Tough

• Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Short

• A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Good
  • Style
  • Caring

• A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Poverty
  • Point
  • Consequences

• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Value
  • Gold
  • Diamonds

• Israel is not Vegas, and it will not be.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Will
  • Israel
  • Vegas

• Whoever doesn't want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • Political
  • Voice

• According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Power
  • Monster
  • Legend

• I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Think
  • Brother
  • Prison

• When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash out: you can see it in the media, scapegoating and penal sentencing.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • People
  • Fear
  • Change

• Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Heart
  • Best
  • Democracy

• Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Action
  • Narrative
  • Solid

• What use is it to study abstractly? You should find and solve some problem, that way you'll really learn.

  

  Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
  • Problem
  • Study
  • Learn

• Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical Thinking' comes to mind as an example of a piece of media that I really respect and would hope to emulate: just her courage in looking at her husband's death and the attentiveness that she has in how she looks at it, and the unflinching gaze that she communicates from looking into death.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • She

• When I've written episodes of 'Doctor Who', when it comes to the monster chasing somebody, it's the Doctor and the companion, running down the corridor, being chased by a guy with a stick and a tennis ball on the end. Whereas, when I see the rushes of 'Being Human', we're actually looking at the werewolf, and it just looks real.

  

  Donald Sumpter
  • Real
  • Guy
  • Running

• I'm super supportive of locally grown foods and farmers. Here in L.A., I know all of my farmers markets and go there weekly.

  

  Anna Getty