Patrisse Cullors Quotes

With abolition, it's necessary to destroy systems of oppression. But it's equally necessary to put at the forefront our conversations about creation. When we fight for justice, what exactly do we want for our communities?

Patrisse Cullors

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JusticeFightCreationWantDestroy

Even to this day, when I think about the fact that I'm in this 'Star Wars' world, that I'm a half-brother to Darth Vader and an uncle to Luke Skywalker, it's too hard to wrap my head around.

Joel Edgerton

DayWorldThinkUncleHardHead

My spleen burst. I remember feeling my heart beating really fast. Beating right out of my chest.

Amy Purdy

HeartRememberFeelingFastRight

I think the movie business, you meet people, and you work intensely with them, and you have these relationships - there's an intimacy to it and a familiarity to the relationship because you're having to let go of all your barriers so you can let people in and work with them.

Sissy Spacek

WorkBusinessRelationshipPeopleGo

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

Rutherford B. Hayes

EducationPowerEffortLawDead

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

Rudolf Arnheim

NowOppositeEquilibriumDisorder

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.

Michael Leunig

HappinessSmallLittleJustVery

Publishing is a business of relationships. The relationships you make at one house can carry over to another.

Lisa Unger

BusinessYouHouseRelationships

Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems.

Douglas Tompkins

NatureWisdomEfficiencyMeasureOur

A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

Chuck Berry

GameLongLookWayAskContract

Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.

Ato Essandoh

ActorReasonsSamQuentin Tarantino

Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.

Arthur Smith

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I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.

Alicia Keys

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