"If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game."

-- Gar Alperovitz

#Games Quotes #Ordinary Quotes #Way Quotes

“History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives of the citizens it is supposed to aid?”

Source : Joelle Charbonneau (2014). “The Testing 2: Independent Study”, p.22, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
“Every country in the world has its own security system and its own security forces, its own police and its own army.”
“J. Lo is also an homage to my fans. That's what fans call me on the streets, and I like it. So giving the album this title is my way of telling them that this is for them, in appreciation of their support.”
“What got me excited to do Grima Wormtongue is when I was young I went through a period in boarding school were I was picked on alot. And there is something about Grima, he has been picked on when he was a kid, he (Grima) is so distrustful, he is so easily corrupted, He is so ugly, and he wants somebody, he wants to love somebody, and he can't, because nobody will have him.”
“Becaise I love God, I want to handle his truth with accuracy, clarity, and specificity. I want to build bridges of understanding from the wisdom of the Word to the details of people's lives. And because I love people, I will not be satisfied with lobbing grenades of general truth at them. Rather, through good questions, committed listening, and careful interpretation, I will enter their world with the understanding necessary to bring Christ's help to where it is really needed.”
“Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.”
“There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.”

Source : "Revelation". Book by Narayanananda Swami p. 168 (2001 edition), 1951.
“Lord help the mister that comes between me and my sister...”

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