Doug Stanton Instead of large-scale occupations, we should rely on small units of Special Forces who have proved it’s infinitely more effective to work with a country’s soldiers and citizens at eye level. – Doug Stanton Citizens Quotes Countrys Quotes Effective Quotes Eye Quotes Forces Quotes Infinitely Quotes Largescale Quotes Level Quotes Occupations Quotes Proved Quotes Rely Quotes Soldiers Quotes Special Quotes Units Quotes I’m really interested in how people face existential crises and either overcome them or don’t, and in how the human psyche responds. Robert Frost had a house in Bennington, Vermont, and I had a friend, the poet Mary Ruefle, who was the caretaker of it when it was owned by Norman Lear, the TV producer. She got a grant to go to Scotland, and she had to be gone six or nine months, so I moved in, and my job was just to make sure the ravage didn’t overtake the place.
Aaron Ruell If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid. – Aaron Ruell
John Stossel I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better. – John Stossel
Joshua Bell The great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them. But there are conductors that actually inhibit the players from playing with each other properly. – Joshua Bell
NatureNikola Tesla The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. – Nikola Tesla
Alicia Garza The Clintons use black people for votes but then don’t do anything for black communities after they’re elected. They use us for photo ops. – Alicia Garza
Erica Jong Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood. – Erica Jong
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