Alperovitz Quotes

#1. You will get such flattery as you deserve, and my foot in your arse the rest of the time.

Joe Abercrombie

#2. The most recent estimate is that a mere 400 individuals in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million Americans taken together -- a degree of wealth concentration that is accurately, not rhetorically, properly designated medieval.

Gar Alperovitz

#3. Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.

America Ferrera

#4. Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.

Vivien Leigh

#5. It's a very special talent that men have, to possess seeing eyes yet be so blind.

David Mitchell

#6. Sex gets us out of the house and out of ourselves.

Alain De Botton

#7. The top 400 people own more wealth now than the bottom 185 million Americans taken together. That is a medieval structure.

Gar Alperovitz

#8. Walk without a stick into the darkest woods. Believe that the fairy tale is true.

Cheryl Strayed

#9. 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

#10. If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.

Gar Alperovitz

#11. Peter had never been so forward

J.E.B. Spredemann

#12. Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Thomas Carlyle

#13. Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.

Martin Cruz Smith

#14. It's the journey that's important, not the getting there!

John McLeod

#15. Internationally, there are countries going well beyond the course, with airlines, transportation. There are systems around the world that have explored mining, rail transport, television, communication, Internet service - there very common examples around the world that we can draw examples from.

Gar Alperovitz

#16. What if my boobs decide to grow WHILE I'm at school?

Renata Suerth

#17. Your relationship to yourself is and always will be directly reflected in all your relationships with others.

Vironika Tugaleva

#18. As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did.

Reagan Gomez-Preston