David Graeber Quotes
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
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Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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Golf is not easy.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.
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I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
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Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.
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Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My father had the same affliction, I guess.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
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People eat duck and you think, well, we've got loads of chickens, leave the ducks alone!
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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads by choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the subtle disciplines
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I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.
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Exchange is all about equivalence.
