"I would like to see a contribution-free election that permitted the people to vote as opposed to corporations. There really ought to be no money in the system except what an individual voter or citizen contributes out of his or her own pocket."

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Source : Source: www.npr.org

Mickey Edwards

#People Quotes #Pockets Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.”
“I just graduated from high school, and I was working at Blockbuster. Not only did I get into movies while I was there, but I was putting away boxes and looking at the kids on the covers. It felt like windows into these seemingly perfect lives.”
“I'm grateful when stories come in a rush, although I keep an eye on them afterwards, to see whether they hold together. It's harder to judge the ones that took so long to finish. With those, I've lost perspective. Mostly I'm just glad that I can be done with them.”
“Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere”
“Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius (Book 6 "The Cynics", Chapter "Diogenes", No. LXIV), circa 200 AD.
“Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
“I wasnt political in order to be political”

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