"The citizens of Love Canal provided an example of how a blue-collar community with few resources can win against great odds (a multi-billion-dollar international corporation and an unresponsive government), using the power of the people in our democratic system."

-- Lois Gibbs

#Winning Quotes #Odds Quotes #Government Quotes

“Don’t let anybody ever tell you life’s fair. Not as long as I’m in it.”
“The human body is not a thing or a substance, given, but a continuous creation.”
“When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.”
“I have this theory that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only idea we'll ever have. Maybe if we are surrounded in beauty, one day we will become what we see. Anyone can start a conflict. It's harder yet to disregard it. I'd rather see the world from another angle. We are everyday angels...”
“I've always been really athletic, which really helped, because when I first started doing the training for Bulletproof Monk, it required so much strength that if I didn't have a base I don't really know what I would have done”

Source : Interview with Michael Idov, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2005.
“My first customer was a lunatic. My second had a death wish.”
“I've often been flabbergasted by modern pharmaceutical ads on television. The list of side effects for some maladies often sound worse than the condition they're supposed to treat. Once I even heard "heart failure" listed as a side effect, and I wondered how that happened. Heart failure sounds like a pretty major event to me, and if you're willing to risk heart failure in order to avoid the mild discomfort of some other condition, then may the gods shield you from harm, since you're obviously seeking it out.”
“But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.”

Source : Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.

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