"We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs, which preach disorder and equality! Close the Jacobin Club and seal up its papers! ... The triumvirate of Robespierre, Danton and Marat, all the 'levellers', all the anarchists. Then a new Convention will be elected."

-- Jacques Pierre Brissot

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“In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.”
“I love drama. I love to play an arc.”

Source : Interview with James Wood, gojimmygo.net. April 13, 2012.
“The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.”
“Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.”
“I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.”

Source : "Sex, Drugs, and Drag". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. March 3, 2011.
“With the sweat of your brow. RapÂture can become your city asÂ well.”
“There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have a frequency and the air, and then you have a timbre which really is overtones - and making those things work together is one thing. The other thing is mechanical: If you can use your hands and arms to create sound on a fiddle, then learning to sing with it is like adding a third body part. And it's all training.”
“I am not backing down on medical marijuana; I am doubling down.”

Source : "Gupta: 'I am doubling down' on medical marijuana". edition.cnn.com. March 6, 2014.

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