"People think of us as an information distributor because that's how they relate to the Internet. But most of the time people already have pretty well established opinions."

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Source : "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

Joan Blades

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Information Quotes

“That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
“Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.”
“I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.”
“Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential stimulus for development. But you want to judge everything by your own standards. You have reached a comparatively high level and so you see what you fight against as evil. Just think of the others, those who are at an earlier stage of development. Do not bar them from the path toward progress and evolution.”
“Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.”
“I have said that science is impossible without faith. ... Inductive logic, the logic of Bacon, is rather something on which we can act than something which we can prove, and to act on it is a supreme assertion of faith ... Science is a way of life which can only fluorish when men are free to have faith.”
“I think, you know, for someone who does play, let's say, old music or, you know, Baroque music or Renaissance music - and you know, and I do play a lot of that, obviously - engaging with new composers, engaging with young composers, is really exciting because it makes me look at people of the past in a very different way that they are also living, that there was a lot of subjectivity in the decisions that they were making.”
“The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.”

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