"I think it's true that if Trump wins, there will be a real activist mobilization, no doubt about it."

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Source : Source: www.democracynow.org

Allan Nairn

#Real Quotes #Winning Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“When I started, the scripts weren't as good, and you'd have to have a huge burst of energy to go, "Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff's no good." So you'd have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining? Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don't have to feel that way. You feel like the script's coming to you, you can just relax. You don't have to drive the boat.”
“The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.”
“In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.”
“Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.”
“To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.”
“I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying out of the mainstream really.”
“I have a serious investment problem. I have no money.”

Source : Melvin Helitzer (1992). “Comedy Writing Secrets”, Writers Digest Books
“I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the inevitable damage that comes from its use by criminals and terrorists. I believed, and continue to believe, that the arguments against widely available cryptography, while certainly advanced by people of good will, did not hold up against the cold light of reason and were inconsistent with the most basic American values.”

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