"I have referred to myself as an accidental activist on more than one occasion."

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Source : "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.

Joan Blades

#Activist Quotes #Occasions Quotes

“All red meat contains saturated fat. There is no such thing as truly lean meat. Trimming away the edge ring of fat around a steak really does not lower the fat content significantly. People who have red meat (trimmed or untrimmed) as a regular feature of their diets suffer in far greater numbers from heart attacks and strokes.”
“But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
“You cannot do only one thing.”
“The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.”

Source : "Howard Wilkinson's LMA survey reveals depth of managers' dedication" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.
“Only see you when I close my eyes. We on borrowed time when I delayed the sunlight.”

Source : Song: Anonymous, Album: Special Occasion, 2007
“Organization has to come from an agreement about principles, rather than just the need to coordinate: so as much as we must all act today in a concerted manner, that should not be the ground of an organization.”
“No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 31, 2017
“The adventure you're ready for is the one you get!”

Source : Jeff Probst, Christopher Tebbetts (2013). “Survivors”, p.4, Penguin

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