David Graeber Quotes
In fact, communism is the foundation of all human sociability. It is what makes society possible.
Quotes to Explore
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
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You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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I watch a lot of football.
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New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.
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The experience that a publication creates for its audience is the very essence of that publication's brand - and without deep engagement, that publication's brand will be weak. A good publication is a convener and an arbiter - it expresses a core narrative that becomes a badge of sorts for its readership.
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If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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In fact, communism is the foundation of all human sociability. It is what makes society possible.
