Georgie Anne Geyer quotes

“The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.”
-- Georgie Anne Geyer

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“The more revolutions occur, the less things change.”
-- Georgie Anne Geyer

Source : Georgie Anne Geyer (1970). “The New Latins: Fateful Change in South and Central America”

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“Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.”
-- Georgie Anne Geyer

Source : Georgie Anne Geyer (1970). “The New Latins: Fateful Change in South and Central America”

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“Follow what you love!... Don't deign to ask what they are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.”
-- Georgie Anne Geyer

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“The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are.”
-- Georgie Anne Geyer

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“We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.”
-- Georgie Anne Geyer

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“It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.”
-- Georgie Anne Geyer

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“An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.”
-- Georgie Anne Geyer

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“I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.”
-- Georgie Anne Geyer

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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”

“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”

“Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.”

“The belief that established science and scholarship--which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making--are "objective"and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture!”

“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

“First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.”

“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”