
18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare)
Song lyrics, Catch Bull at Four (1972)
Source: The Worldly Philosophers (1953), Chapter IV, Parson Malthus and David Ricardo, p. 71
18th Avenue (Kansas City Nightmare)
Song lyrics, Catch Bull at Four (1972)
“That change didn't happen from the top down, but it happened from the bottom up.”
2017, Farewell to Staff Members (January 2017)
Context: That change didn't happen from the top down, but it happened from the bottom up. It was met sometimes with skepticism and doubt. Some folks didn't think we could pull it off. There were those that felt that the institutions of power and privilege in this country were too deeply entrenched. And yet, all of you came together in small towns and big cities, a whole bunch of you really young, and you decided to believe and you knocked on doors and you made phone calls and you talked to your parents who didn't know how to pronounce Barack Obama. And you got to know each other. And you went into communities that maybe you had never even thought about visiting and met people that on the surface seemed completely different than you -- didn't look like you or talk like you or watch the same TV programs as you. And yet, once you started talking to them, it turned out that you had something in common. And it grew and it built. And people took notice. And throughout, it was infused with a sense of hope. As I said in 2004, it wasn't blind optimism that drove you to do all of this work. It wasn't naiveté. It wasn't willful ignorance to all the challenges that America faces. It was hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. You proved the power of hope.
[NewsBank, 3, Sarah Whitman, Age-old feud: In the beginning, Tampa Bay Times, Florida, February 7, 2014]
Source: The Lost Plot (2017), Chapter 17 (p. 215)
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
“Different class … DIFFERENT CLASS!”
Maradona scores against England at the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. herald.ie http://www.herald.ie/news/irelands-other-big-games-winner-jimmy-magee-3196108.html
FIFA World Cup
“Laughable rumors. I’m not stepping back or stepping down. You could say I’m stepping up.”
On the rumors of her stepping down as head of Caixin Media in "AP Interview: Chinese editor Hu Shuli steps aside, not down" in Associated Press (30 January 2018) https://apnews.com/article/china-censorship-business-international-news-asia-pacific-d1f0e45181c64cd0b1a978842a81affa
Yertle the Turtle (1958)
Source: Yertle the Turtle and Gertrude McFuzz
Quoted in Matt Seaton, "I feel used," The Guardian, 16 October 2003