Christopher Lasch Quotes
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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You don't win the game if you try to hit home runs all the time.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.
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People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.
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A lot of my friends are getting married, but I don't think that is what I need. I am under no such pressure that if everybody is having a boyfriend, I too should have one.
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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'I want to know what the devil you mean by keeping coming into my private apartment, taking up space which I require for other purposes and interrupting me when I am chatting with my personal friends. Really one gets about as much privacy in this house as a strip-tease dancer.'
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I had a heart then But the queen has been overthrown
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Sé que tienes nada. Por ello te pido todo. Para que tengas todo.
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If you have a company that doesn't sell its goods or services abroad and focuses only on the domestic market, it will keep paying a price.
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For me, 'Evil Urges' was like a video game. If you play 'Super Mario Brothers,' there's a level where it's like a snowscape, and then there's a level where it's a desert and a level that's like a jungle.
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For one cannot assume that God exists to help people who are too cowardly and too lazy to help themselves and think that God exists only to make up for the weakness of mankind. He does not exist for that purpose. He has always, at all times, blessed only those who were prepared to fight their own battles.
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We're not so poor that we have to spend our wilderness or so rich that we can afford to.
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Television is much more complex, brain-challenging and involved than it used to be. It's almost impossible to watch a television show from 15 years ago; it's just too boring. I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
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The rulings are like the Nielsen ratings. Everybody who goes for a ruling probably represents tens of thousands of taxpayers who have the same problem, but didn't even know they could find relief.
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The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
