"Mostly actors are progressive because we are accustomed to all the nuances of human life, whereas dictators just try to flatten it all out. So we usually try to stand up to dictators like, well, we won't mention names."

-- Jane Fonda

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“Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.”

Source : Kirkpatrick Sale (2017). “Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future”, p.64, Chelsea Green Publishing
“Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“We all need to learn a new language for love - a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other's uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.”
“Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.”

Source : Zygmunt Bauman (2013). “Globalization: The Human Consequences”, p.8, John Wiley & Sons
“As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.”
“Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.”
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”

Source : "Fictional character: Elliot Carver". "Tomorrow Never Dies", www.imdb.com. 1997.
“I'm pretty much a self-taught player. My swing hasn't changed a whole lot, I don't think. But I watch a lot of people.”

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