"I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about."

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Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

Randall Robinson

#Offending Quotes #People Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.”
“If you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do not want people to have a consciousness of life, of their needs. Because people do not make good slaves when they're connected to life... That's why in the public schools the primary objective is obedience to authority.”
“There is a black which is old and a black which is fresh. Lustrous black and dull black, black in sunlight and black in shadow.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.86, Univ of California Press
“Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.”
“Character driven stories engage me and when an audience gets to know a character in an unforced way and finds themselves rooting for him or her, those are the kind of movies that get me excited.”
“Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you donâ€™t know how you got from one to the next.”
“I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.”
“Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.”

Source : "Take politics out of student loans" by Arne Duncan, www.politico.com. June 10, 2012.

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