"As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency."

-- David Korten

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“No U.S. citizen is being kicked off any voter rolls.”

Source : Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 12, 2012.
“You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.”
“I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility.”
“gossip, after it reaches a certain point of insult and falsehood, becomes a source of amusement to its victims.”
“I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.”
“I can relate to girls with self esteem issues because growing up in this industry there is the side of you that is obsessed with perfection. You want to please everyone because if you don't, you won't get the job. There is always someone prettier, smarter, or a better actor that you. You start to nit-pick everything. That perfectionism kicks in and it can take over your life if you let it. You have to get comfortable with yourself. Then, if you get the job, it is an added bonus.”
“I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in some way to write what did happen in a world that doesn't necessarily exist.”
“If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can lastâ€”and no one can concentrate on anythingâ€”for longer than about two seconds.”

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