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So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric. ↗

— John Podesta

#dialogue #discussion #facts #gives #hungry

Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong. ↗

— John Podesta

#care #i #i think #issue #left

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#ago #effect #exertion #faith #happy

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#cases #considered #few #i #i think

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#any #certainly #discover #fat #moment

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#also #audition #commercial #funny #genius

I lived in Chicago for a few years and got a sense of - kind of that broad-shouldered, windy, um, stern, Midwestern, warm-slash-passive aggressive, wonderful - every adjective I can think of, very cold. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#aggressive #chicago #cold #every #few

Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#change #day #difference #done #get

Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#assistant #besides #clean #clean up #doing

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#based #change #history #i #little