"Fresno is an All America city and deserves real, honest, strong leadership and I pledge to the people of Fresno to be that kind of leader."

-- Alan Autry

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“The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades - and evidence is mounting that what's happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act.”
“We need to walk to know sacred places, those around us and those within. We need to walk to remember the songs.”

Source : Joseph Bruchac (1999). “No borders: new poems”, Holy Cow Press
“My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals they're screaming-growling stuff and he's got a pretty reasonable voice. Yet he practices really hard to get the screaming-growling thing without losing that voice every five minutes. So I'm, like, 'Hats off to you.'”
“Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with somebody else's money, unless you first take it away from them? The only way you can take it away from them is the threat of force: you have a policeman, tax collector, who comes and takes it from them.”
“We [me and Jennifer Salke] talked about the characters and different kinds of families and where are we today. We certainly pitched the gay couple, but we also talked about what it was like to be a single mother with a young daughter, what is it like to be a woman in your 50's who is completely starting over and dating again and having to go online to date again. We talked about the whole spectrum of the characters, but I don't think it ever came up about whether people are ready for it or not.”
“It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.”
“And out of all the movies, I don't know what it is, I'll always sit down and watch our 'Footloose'. I cry, I get excited, I cheer, my heart pounds. I really enjoy it.”

Source : "Footloose's Craig Brewer, Julianne Hough, and Kenny Wormald". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.
“I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.”

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