"A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal."

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Source : Lee Lockwood, Daniel Berrigan (1972). “Daniel Berrigan: Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes: Conversations After Prison with Lee Lockwood”, New York : Random House

Daniel Berrigan

#Interesting Quotes #Revolution Quotes #Heal Quotes

“If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.”
“The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.”
“It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.”
“Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.
“Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself.”
“When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good you can be.”
“Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.”

Source : Brooks Jackson, Kathleen Hall Jamieson (2007). “unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation”, p.7, Random House
“Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.”

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