The federalism term is
The federalism term is a good term, but it’s just below the surface; it’s just about to come up into wider public understanding that these practices are happening and are politically viable. Gar Alperovitz
Come Up
The enterprise of describing
The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it’s extremely difficult. Gao Xingjian
I kind of think
I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it’s really a Photoshoped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough … Read more
Now people are coming
Now people are coming up to meet me at my shows and they’re doing my bits! One guy earlier was at 7-11 and he comes up to me and goes you want a falcon?. Gabriel Iglesias
Why would anybody connect
Why would anybody connect to someone who has everything going for them? It’s the person who has faults that people want to connect to. So people identify with certain insecurities on stage and just by me talking about my diabetes people come up to me after the show and tell me Gabe, my blood sugar … Read more
And the good writer
And the good writer chooses his words for their ‘meaning’, but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably. … Read more
We don’t have enough
We don’t have enough solid organs for transplantation; not enough kidneys, livers, hearts, lungs. When you get a liver and you have three people who need it, who should get it? We tried to come up with an ethically defensible answer. Because we have to choose. Ezekiel Emanuel
Now, I talk to
Now, I talk to athletes who answer questions with a ‘yeah’. I realize I used to do that. Or they answer very quickly and you stand there trying to come up with another question to ask. I’ve seen both sides and it’s been very educational. Evelyn Ashford
Kids come up to
Kids come up to me all the time and say, ‘Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.’ Evel Knievel
In America, we have
In America, we have to really be working on two fronts right now. Immediately, we have to be rising in resistance and protecting our Muslim brothers and sisters [and] every marginalized person under threat and siege. At the same time, we have to be planning and envisioning where we’re going. How we build moments and … Read more