Christopher Lasch Quotes
Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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You have to be brave when you've got a kid.
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I have no political aspirations. That's it.
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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All lovely things will have an ending,All lovely things will fade and die,And youth, that's now so bravely spending,Will beg a penny by and by.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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On the day Kazan showed me the completed picture I was so depressed by my performance that I got up and left the screening room.
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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
