"It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past."

-- Adora Svitak

#Past Quotes #Ignorant Quotes #Uninformed Quotes

“As I get older ... I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government.”
“The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet Union in Western Europe.”
“My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way...”

Source : "Jeff Goldblum Makes the Grade as "Seminar's" New Writing Coach". Interview with Robert Kahn, www.nbcnewyork.com. April 27, 2012.
“A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.”
“And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.”

Source : Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”
“Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within-to start expanding energy and intelligence-people would work overtime for free. They would be far more creative. And the company would just leap forward. This is the way it can be. It's not the way it is, but it could be that way so easily.”
“American foreign policy is now one huge big mystery. Simply put, the administration is trying to lead the world with a feel-good foreign policy.”
“For me, music is sort of my passion, more so than being an actor. I just never tried to make a career as a musician. It was just something that I did on my own time, just for me. I had written a lot of songs, but I don't really record a lot of music because, for me, it's the same way as a poet: I write to get things out. It's sort of cathartic.”

Source : "THE LEADING MEN: Steve Kazee, the Traveling Heart of Broadway's Once". Interview with Kenneth Jones, www.playbill.com. March 17, 2012.

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