Fredric Jameson Quotes
And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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I love girl power.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
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In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
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A tree is made to live in peace in the color of day and in friendship with the sun, the wind and the rain. Its roots plunge in thefat fermentation of the soil, sucking in its elemental humors, its fortifying juices. Trees always seem lost in a great tranquil dream. The dark rising sap makes them groan in the warm afternoons. A tree is a living being that knows the course of the clouds and presses the storms because it is full of birds' nests.
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Comfort food is absolutely moving upscale.
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American exceptionalism is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.
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And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.
