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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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.
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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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Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.
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Japan had an energy crisis. I thought, instead of just worrying about it, I should take some kind of responsibility to provide the solutions.
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What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
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I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'
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You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
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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.
