“It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.” MenMadePerfectKnowingGayExcitingRaisesCrisisExtraordinaryEveningHallsSoloGay MenDebutCarnegieCarnegie Hall Author:Bernadette Peters
“If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.” IfsLongWould BePerfectTroubleBehaviorCrisis Author:Angela Thirkell
“The issue of managing through a crisis is you have to be decisive even if you don't have perfect information.” IfsPerfectIssuesInformationCrisis Author:Howard Schultz
“The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And then they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis. It's perfect circularity.” WritingNextPerfectCrisisBailLobbyingCircularity Author:Elizabeth Warren
“People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.” PeopleBigsChallengesPerfectCrisisStrongestNot Perfect Author:Patricia Hewitt
“There's sort of a theory that's going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.” CommunityPerfectTheoryElectionCrisisChinaStormOlympicsExplosionsPerfect StormStorms Coming Author:Bonnie Blair
“Poverty feeds into the clean-water crisis, which contributes to hunger, and so on. There's undeniable interconnectivity among these issues. Just one of these problems can be deadly on its own, but in the most disadvantaged areas there is a perfect storm of problems. And it takes its greatest toll on children.” ChildrenProblemWaterPerfectPovertyIssuesAreasCrisisCleanHungerStormJust OneTollsClean WaterDisadvantagedPerfect StormWater Crisis Author:Matt Damon
“In a crisis, my family puts aside all its petty differences and hatreds... Because a crisis, is a perfect opportunity to create *new* petty differences and hatreds! My dad's from that era when you lived to 50, your heart exploded and that was that. You know when you cook bacon and you pour the grease into the can? My dad's the can!” KnowsHeartOpportunityDifferencesPerfectDadMy FamilyHatredCrisisMy DadErasCooksPettyGrease Author:Christopher Titus
“Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights. She has passed a host of bills in many different areas, both national and global, with both national and global importance for women, and she's on a Chair of Finance Committee so essentially in this economic crisis, we thought she would be perfect.” DifferentWould BeFightingPerfectCreativityRightsEconomicAreasDeterminationImportanceCrisisBillsFinanceChairsHostWomens RightsCommitteesTenacityEconomic Crisis Author:Eleanor Smeal
“She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.” KnowsWholePerfectIssuesEconomicCrisisFinancialFinancial CrisisEconomic CrisisWhole Picture Author:Eleanor Smeal
“Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm.” YearsEyeRememberPerfectClassStreetsMiddleWorstPolicyWallTaxesYears AgoCrisisFinancialEightStormMiddle ClassWealthyRecessions1930sFinancial CrisisGreat RecessionPerfect Storm Author:Hillary Clinton
“The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?” WorldNeedsHas BeensWarStatesPerfectConditionsCrisisConstantWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiPerpetualWarfareFascists Author:Grant Morrison