David Graeber Quotes
At the very least, one would imagine being an openly anarchist professor would mean challenging the way universities are run-and I don’t mean by demanding an anarchist studies department, either-and that, of course, is going to get one in far more trouble than anything one could ever write.
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Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.
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When I grew up, the thing boys would do during the summer is work tobacco because it was a cheap product back then. I didn't want to do that. From an early, early, early age, I was like, 'I like music. This performing thing comes easy.' And perhaps that's how I ended up doing what I'm doing today. Being a musician.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
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The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
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One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.
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There are so many bad influences out there. I don't care if a kid is rich or poor, if he lives in a million-dollar house or the ghetto, he is going to find some sick things on the street. And if we don't clean it up soon, we're all going to pay the price.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.
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The NBA is all politics. It's about who you know.
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During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.
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Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.
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Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.
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When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.
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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.
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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.
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At the very least, one would imagine being an openly anarchist professor would mean challenging the way universities are run-and I don’t mean by demanding an anarchist studies department, either-and that, of course, is going to get one in far more trouble than anything one could ever write.
