Sylvia Mathews Burwell Quotes

I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change.

It used to be, people were afraid to talk about Social Security. Now, I think people should be afraid not to talk about Social Security and start coming up with some solutions.

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

I encourage all my colleagues to run for office themselves. But it has become extremely difficult in this system to become a prominent opposition politician. I no longer have any rivals to have a debate with. I need competition. And the people will soon tire of me. They say: Navalny, It's always just Navalny. We want to see someone new.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

Every time you go for more competition, some people don’t like it, but that’s the way it is. We believe it is better for the people.

You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.

I have strong views against substance usage and abuse. It's bad for kidney and central neuro system.

The cars are always changing. The competition's cars are always getting better. Sometimes when you try to make them better, you make them worse.

If things don't work in education, we need change.

We think we can contribute something toward the improvement of public education in our country.

I think people are really talking about it. Having conversations about how to make change.

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

I'm not interested to change about the government. I'm interested to change the conditions for the people. So, yes, I talk a lot. But I think this is the only way for Italy in this moment.

We change people through conversation, not through censorship.

I think what gives me hope is I have the sense that the people of Kenya have turned the page. They are keen to get a new political dispensation. They are keen to fight corruption and impunity, and in that sense they are leaving the political elite behind.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe.

I think about my cocaine use. I liked it. I thought it was a great drug. But I knew that if I was doing that almost exclusively, I wouldn't be able to continue to also have significant others and a wide range of other things. And I wasn't special. A number of people, including the people I was doing cocaine with, also behaved the same way.

I actually didn't like that feeling of being out of touch because what I do depends on being in touch. But it's fun to talk about. That's one of the real dangers of drugs: they're too much fun to talk about.

I think there are people out there who just kind of say, let's repot the plant. Let's give somebody else a chance. And it's not just anger or disappointment in their lives, it's the sense of, let's shake this up. And no one is shaking it up as much as Trump.

I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.