“Mature people transmit to young people a certain wisdom that comes from maturity, but young people are close to a more intuitive wisdom, and they can give that back to older people who have lost it to their maturation.”
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“My character Lena is somebody who responds to people in a very simple way. I didn't have to take myself off to a darkened room to concentrate, I just had to try and be open. It's an interesting, subtle relationship.”
“I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel.”
“I didnt know how many people knew who Ferdinand was.”
“If all the good people were clever And all the clever people were good The world would be nicer than ever We thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or ner The two hit it off as they should The good are so harsh to the clever The clever so rude to the good!”
“Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.”
“Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.”
“A tree is best measured when it is down - and so it is with people.”
“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.”
“I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said "billion" many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said "billions and billions." For one thing, it's too imprecise. How many billions are "billions and billions"? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? "Billions and billions" is pretty vague. When we reconfigured and updated the series, I checked-and sure enough, I never said it.”
“Football changes and so do people.”
“Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.”
“We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.”
“There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.”
“It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.”
“People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.”
“One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.”
“Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.”
“Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.”
“I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach... or participatory economics, which is another great model that people like Michael Albert are putting out there... any system that encourages us to think about interdependency, and to be able to use the world's resources in a wiser way, for the good of the whole, would be better for the world than capitalism.”