"Throughout history, ideas need patrons."

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Source : "Covert Operations" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2010.

Matt Kibbe

#Ideas Quotes #Needs Quotes #Patron Quotes

“Women have always struggled with their men-folk for the abolition of slavery, the liberation of countries from colonialism, the dismantling of apartheid and the attainment of peace. It is now the turn of men to join women in their struggle for equality.”
“Unfortunately, most people do not stop to feel their tiredness. Faced with the pressures of life, they believe that it is a matter of survival to go on as they have been. Feeling tired raises a deep fear that they may not be able to continue the struggle. Many find it difficult to say, â€˜I canâ€™t.â€™ As children, they were taught that where thereâ€™s a will, thereâ€™s a way. To say, â€˜I canâ€™t,â€™ is to admit failure, which is seen as evidence that they are unworthy of love.”
“We were on Island Records for five or six years and we kinda just got tired of them always wanting to use our connections, all the time. It's like, they didn't really do much for us, I mean, they would give us money here and there and you know, do stuff like that but, I mean, overall, they didn't push us.”

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“I really didn't go that hard, although a couple of years I did. Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. they're just goin' all the time.”
“Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.”
“However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.”
“I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.”
“Football is easy; I’ve done this since I was a baby. To me, that’s not success. Success to me is being a world changer…I say football is my platform, not my purpose. How can I use my platform to fulfill my purpose? I want people to say that he fulfilled his purpose.”

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