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.

David Graeber

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• Of course I want to look well and fit - and as an athlete, I want to look strong.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Look

• I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Think
  • Story
  • Problems

• 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.

  

  Maceo Parker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Two
  • Doctors
  • Leg

• 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.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • City
  • Happen
  • Windows

• 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.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Writing
  • Dying
  • Ego

• One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Never
  • Same
  • Back

• I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • History
  • Think
  • You

• All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Films
  • Go
  • Got

• Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Enough
  • Rules
  • Often

• Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• I know what people laugh at. I know their vocabulary.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Know
  • Laugh

• 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.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Up
  • Bad
  • House

• As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Music
  • Business
  • Know

• The NBA is all politics. It's about who you know.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • You
  • Know
  • Politics

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Great
  • Home
  • Purpose

• 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.

  

  Adam McKay
  • World
  • Ideas
  • Creative

• The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Heart
  • Down
  • Paper

• Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Art
  • Science
  • Christian

• The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • World
  • Joy
  • Alive

• A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

  

  Rene Char
  • Dreams
  • Poet
  • Passage

• 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.

  

  David Graeber