David Graeber Quotes

If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.

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• Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Great
  • Pretty

• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Money
  • Poverty
  • Breeds

• The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Death
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• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
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  • Problems

• No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Today
  • You
  • Fireworks

• Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

  

  Victoria Abril
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  • Work
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• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
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• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

  

  Felix Adler
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• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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• Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Earth
  • Fate
  • Fly

• My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.

  

  Natalie Martinez
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• I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

  

  Waylon Jennings
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• I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
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• Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.

  

  Langhorne Slim
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• Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Star

• I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Important
  • Home
  • Question

• People didn't think that a woman could be the Secretary of State, when my name was out there...but then the Arab Ambassadors at the UN said 'We have no problem dealing with Ambassador Albright, and we would have no problem dealing with Secretary Albright.'

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Thinking
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• Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • World
  • Speed
  • Rage

• Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

  

  Moliere
  • Noble
  • Zeal
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• If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.

  

  David Graeber
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