"I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images."

-- John Shirley

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.”
“I've never thought that I would see any man of color, not just a black president, but any man of color, I never thought that I would live to see that. I thought maybe my grandchildren would, but I never thought I would. So when Barack Obama first started to run I was like, "I've never heard of this guy - he probably doesn't have a shot." But then he started picking up steam and that piqued my interest.”
“I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.”
“[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.”
“There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.”
“My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general publicâ€™s hearts and minds and bodies.”
“Farming is a profession of hope”

Source : Brian Brett (2009). “Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life”, p.16, Greystone Books Ltd
“People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.”

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