Alana Bloom Quotes & Sayings

In "securing" people, make them really really afraid. Create all kinds of colors and alerts that terrorize the population. Terror and numbness will eventually be mistaken for security. In "securing" people, take away their opinions and voices and instincts. Make them feel afraid to speak out. Control will eventually be mistaken for security. In "securing" people, distract them through addictive consumption and mindless entertainment programming. Amnesia will eventually be mistaken for security. — Eve Ensler

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. — Igor Stravinsky

The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling. — Howard Hodgkin

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones. — Jerome Hines

Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didn't even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually. — Roger Federer

Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I mentioned it next day to the French purser, at whose table I was sitting. He nodded his agreement. "Stevenson is right," he said. "Indeed, if you will pardon my saying so, the idea applies particularly to you Americans. A lot of your countrymen keep so busy getting things done that they reach the end of their lives without ever having lived at all." — Arthur Gordon Webster

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves. — David Graeber

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning. — Aunjanue Ellis

I'm just like anyone else. I have ideals that I grasp onto but I try not to grasp on too tightly and to be open to other people's thoughts and opinions even if they're completely different than mine. — Michelle Glick

Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow. — Henry George

Close my eyes and feel you here. Sigh and wish you were, my friend. Love you still and deeply. Come to me again. — Anonymous

Make that: no one I ever wanted to kiss wanted to kiss a fat girl. — Rainbow Rowell

People listen to the beat first. So if that doesn't draw people in especially with the audience I cater to, they're definitely about that production. — Torae