"If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them."

--

Source : Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan (2012). “The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope”, p.327, Haymarket Books

Amy Goodman

#Wall Quotes #Party Quotes #Numbers Quotes

“After 20 years of racing career the most important lessons I learned is that you need to have the passion and really love to ride your bike every day at the highest level. Also, for me personally, my goal was to always try to beat another generation, to try to beat the sport again. Trying to develop myself even when I was 37 years old.”
“I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.”
“You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.”
“Human beings have a need, generally, to destroy things. The Freudian principle of civilisation is correct. There's always, always a difference between the family image and the reality.”
“I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.”
“Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.”
“I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my shoulder sat humanity and wisdom and generosity, a munificent heart--do this until that incredibly lovely day when the great man would say to me, his voice grave and dramatic with discovery: "This is you, Exley. Rise and go back into the world a whole man.”

Source : Frederick Exley (1997). “A Fan's Notes”

You may also like:

Chris Hedges
Author
Glenn Greenwald
Journalist
Howard Zinn
Historian
Jeremy Scahill
Editor
Laura Poitras
Film director
Michael Moore
Filmmaker
Noam Chomsky
Linguist
Robert Reich
Former United States Secretary of Labor
Thom Hartmann
Radio host