"I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action."

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Howard Rheingold

#Meaningful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“North Korea is no threat at all. I have already spoken about it during countless televised interviews. I visited North Korea and mingled with its people. There, nobody wants war. The North Korean people paid a terrible price for their independence. Its civilians were murdered mercilessly in tunnels by Western forces; its women were brutally raped, entire villages and towns leveled to the ground, or burned to ashes. All this is never discussed in the West, but is remembered in North Korea.”
“I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.”
“Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents.”
“Do remember: your sexiness is about how you feel, not how you look.”

Source : Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt (1997). “The ethical slut: a guide to infinite sexual possibilities”, Greenery Pr
“Who are they to judge us, simply because our hair is long?”
“I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.”
“When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.”
“I suspect that many of us, if given the chance to make one person in our lives love us more, would have no trouble in choosing where to point a finger. We are all needy, all vulnerable, all terrified that perhaps that person has an excellent reason to withhold affection. We shape our purposes to make ourselves worthy and often do not see until much later how it was love-or perhaps the lack of it-that both picked us up and dropped us off at crossroads.”

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