David Graeber Quotes
Medieval corporations owned property, and they often engaged in complex financial arrangements, but in no case were they profit-seeking enterprises in the modern sense.
Quotes to Explore
-
I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
-
I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
-
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.
-
My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
-
President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
-
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
-
I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
-
I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
-
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
-
Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
-
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
-
I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
-
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
-
Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
-
The power to tax and spend is restricted by the enumerated powers.
-
Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
-
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
-
It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people, the Palestinians and the Arabs, wish me long life and freedom.
-
I would love to study cultures and people.
-
I can think. I can sleep. I can move. I can ride my bike. I can dream.
-
Maturity transformation is a central part of the economic function of banks and many other types of financial intermediaries.
-
The main thing I hope people see is how passionate I am about my work, and I know people talk about it, but I do work really hard on my stuff, and it means a lot to me.
-
I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
-
Medieval corporations owned property, and they often engaged in complex financial arrangements, but in no case were they profit-seeking enterprises in the modern sense.
