"People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves."

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Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

Joan Larkin

#Taken Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.”
“The world is a playground -Indian”
“'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!”
“The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.”
“J.L. Moreno was a pioneer of twentieth-century theater and psychotherapy. A remarkable work, Impromptu Man should be required reading for therapists and dramatists alike.”
“The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.”
“The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.
“If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.”

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