Fredric Jameson Quotes

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

Fredric Jameson

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• You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • You
  • Understand
  • Credit

• Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Business

• You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.

  

  Daisy Bates
  • Man
  • Way
  • Woman

• Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Literature
  • Changes

• I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Read
  • Surprised

• There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Proud

• Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.

  

  Valerie June
  • Good
  • Start
  • Name

• The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Small
  • Last

• I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.

  

  Zach Gilford
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Cool
  • Doing
  • Self

• We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings. But what I have seen on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' is that no one benefits from holding back and keeping things bottled up inside. So I pride myself on speaking my mind and not being afraid to give honest feedback.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Mind
  • True

• I want to regain my First Amendment rights.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Want
  • First Amendment

• Holmes said Emerson had a beautiful voice, and, of course, Holmes had one of the most beautiful voices the Lord ever put into a throat.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Beautiful

• They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Greek

• The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes like to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Men
  • Done

• Could man be drunk for everWith liquor, love, or fights,Lief should I rouse at morningsAnd lief lie down of nights.But men at whiles are soberAnd think by fits and starts,And if they think, they fastenTheir hands upon their hearts.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Men
  • Drunk

• It's a very lovely reputation to have - being a kind person. I try to live up to the fact that people think that about me.

  

  Josh Gondelman
  • Kind
  • Reputation
  • Live Up

• We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Trying
  • Confidence
  • Problems

• Everyone always says I'm a rapper, and that I'm exactly like Peaches and M.I.A. People just take any female artist and compare me to them.

  

  Uffie
  • People
  • Artist
  • Rapper

• If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • British
  • Atom Bomb
  • Esed

• It all has to do with the director, the captain of the ship. He sets the pace, the mood. If the director is quiet, the set is quiet. If the director is loud, then everybody has to be louder to be heard.

  

  Eva Marie Saint
  • Mood
  • Director
  • Ship

• So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

  

  Fredric Jameson