"You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea."

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Source : "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

Vijay Prashad

#Ideas Quotes #Way Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“I had learnt to seek intensity rather than happiness, not joys and prosperity but more of life, a concentrated sense of life, a strengthened feeling of existence, fullness and concentration of pulse, energy, growth, flowering, beyond the image of happiness or unhappiness.”
“When I used to gamble, I looked for players with head covers on their irons. Those guys I could beat.”
“You can't succeed unless you've got failure, especially creatively.”
“All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.”
“It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange...and it won't bother humans.”
“The results of "engaged" companies vs "disengaged" companies are staggering. Getting workers to be more engaging with their coworkers and customers can produce huge results.”
“Where music leads, I follow.”

Source : "Le Freak, C'est Chic: Die Antwoord Fronts Alexander Wang's T Campaign" by Nick Axelrod, www.elle.com. April 26, 2012.
“When I step on that basketball court, I'm thinking about basketball, I'm thinking about winning - but there's so much that goes into thought about how I'm going to open this game up to others. It's so much more than just basketball.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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