Todd Gitlin Quotes

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

Todd Gitlin

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LifePoliticsMeResultsElection

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.

John Elway

LearnDoingAttentionYouMorePay

Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.

Robert Morgan

HonestyHumorToughFindPoetSense

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.

Ross MacDonald

SeaChildhoodMeRoseYouthYears

Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.

Judd Gregg

GoodCommunitySafetyYouProtection

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?

Jean Cocteau

SuccessLuckBelieveChanceYouHow

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

Jonny Greenwood

ThinkI ThinkReally

When you study postpartum depression, there is a very clear understanding that in communities where you see more support, there is less depression.

Ariel Gore

DepressionSupportUnderstandingYou

I can feel this pressure of living up to the expectations of people. I hope I can fulfill it.

Ashish Sharma

HopePeopleExpectationsPressureUp

I think that building political power has to come from the outside and from within. Meaning, we have to build political alternatives to the existing system, and we have to try to impact what is happening in the existing system.

Alicia Garza

PowerBuildingThinkImpactMeaning

As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children's faces light up at the suspense of a new tale or the surprise of a new poem. The uninhibited joy with which they listen is surely akin to that of adult audiences of old around campfire and hearth.

William Jay Smith

ChildrenTeacherLightExperience

Films are always different from books.

William Kircher

AlwaysDifferentBooksFilms

Nobody responds to being made to feel judged.

Shalom Harlow

FeelNobodyBeingMadeJudged

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