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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• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Heart
  • Down
  • Paper

• At the end of the day, who I really and truly am is a little girl who loved to play the piano.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Girl
  • Day
  • End

• 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.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • True
  • Nature

• I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Thinking
  • Why
  • Years

• Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Up
  • Read
  • Here

• Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.

  

  Stuart Townsend
  • Actors
  • Recognized
  • Input

• We all think we're liberated when we have more of everything, don't we? That's what the media tell us.

  

  Pauline Collins

• You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.

  

  Peter Lynch
  • Stock

• Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

  

  Sergei Eisenstein
  • Persons
  • Bird
  • Landscape

• It's mass confusion. I'm guessing on every shot. About the only thing left for me is acupuncture in the brain.

  

  George Archer
  • Brain
  • Confusion
  • Guessing

• 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