"The GOP’s thirst for confrontation and crisis is symptomatic of a destructive and nihilistic streak that has overtaken our political system. When one party repudiates the whole concept of compromise, it is inevitable that the government will lurch from one crisis to another."

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Source : Mike Lofgren (2012). “The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted”, p.24, Penguin

Mike Lofgren

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“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”
“Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.”

Source : "Director Jennifer Lynch Interview SURVEILLANCE". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 22, 2009.
“Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.”
“life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.”
“A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician”
“Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.”

Source : Edward W. Said (2014). “Orientalism”, p.29, Vintage
“The thing about singing is that if you're having fun while doing it then people will have fun watching you do it. Like in karaoke if you're like "I don't think I can do it" and then you sing a song and you look terrified people will say, "Poor guy or poor girl, get offstage. You're killing us." But if you get onstage and you don't sing that well but you give it your all, people will be like, "Yeah, I'll chug beer to this!".”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“There's no deodorant for desperation.”

Source : Jerry Stahl (2008). “I, Fatty”, p.248, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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