"I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education."

-- Adam Braun

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“I like the night. I like a slight terror to remind me how precious life is. Like I was sleeping with my smallest child and there were crazy coyotes howling outside. I knew how lucky I was to have her near me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'd say the vast majority of my interview experiences have been pleasant, better than pleasant. But sometimes there will be people who will size you up. There can be that "rock star" thing where they think it's cool to pull back.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Even very progressive, informed people still get tongue-tied responding to the question, can organic and sustainably raised food still feed the world? A corollary to that question, and one we certainly hear a lot these days, is that genetically modified foods are better for the environment because they use fewer chemicals, which has been thoroughly debunked.”

Source : "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview With Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.
“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”
“Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.”
“The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.”

Source : "How to Build a Film Industry (Almost) From Scratch". Interview with Shipra Harbola Gupta, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2014.
“The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.”

Source : M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.257, Simon and Schuster
“I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.”

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