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Rebecca Solnit Quotes

The exercise of democracy begins as exercise, as walking around, becoming familiar with the streets, comfortable with strangers, able to imagine your own body as powerful and expressive rather than a pawn.

Rebecca Solnit

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: June 24, 1961

Topics

Democracy Walking Powerful Body Own

Our only security is our ability to change.

John Lilly

Change Security Ability Only Our

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off.

Michael Gambon

Me Theatre Generation Doing You Up

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Stephen Gardiner

Great Light Architecture Detail Soft

For decades, media companies have largely controlled the tools through which consumers were told what to buy, wear or think. Now consumers possess the same ability to produce, distribute and curate content and distribute it to their peers in real time across social media platforms.

Simon Mainwaring

Time Social Media Think Tools Media

When I interviewed profilers in 1984 in the basement of the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA., there were just four of them - Roger Depue, John Douglas, Roy Hazelwood, and Robert Ressler.

Ronald Kessler

FBI Just Four Basement Them Academy

I had a strong conviction that there was something out there in the world that was wonderful.

Mary Gaitskill

World Strong Out Conviction Had

Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.

Mike McCready

Writing Kind Pop Songs Masters

There have been a couple specific instances where I've felt like I couldn't survive without interacting with a certain person. I've been involved with some pretty manipulative people who have told me the same thought: that I can't live without them.

Lucy Dacus

Live People Me Survive Thought Same

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

Lisa Loeb

Family Education Texas Think Play

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

Dennis Prager

Value People American Explain System

I think the first concert I attended was Coldplay with my dad when I was around eight years old.

Daya

Think Old First Years Concert Eight

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

Christopher Columbus

Morning Night Tide Meet Anchor Us