David Graeber Quotes
Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free.
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I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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I try to do my best.
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I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.
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I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.
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It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
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I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.
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Playboy magazine announced that they are going to support the troops by sending them emails from Playboy playmates. After hearing this the U.S. troops said 'Just our luck, we get emails from playmates, but we're embedded with Geraldo.'
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Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free.
