Christopher Lasch Quotes
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I cared about was convincing people to allow me to go on with my work.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.
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There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.
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What young woman is not, more or less, a mirror?
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You cannot hinder someone's free will, that's the first law of the Universe, no matter what the decision.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.
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Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation.
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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
