David Graeber Quotes
The criminalization of debt was the criminalization of the very basis of human society.
Quotes to Explore
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
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The criminalization of debt was the criminalization of the very basis of human society.
