David Riesman Quotes
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.David Riesman
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
Samantha Power -
I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon -
My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
Fiona Apple -
Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
Adam McKay -
So when I'm working out I do things extreme.
Taylor Dayne -
I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
W. Richard Stevens
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
Dan Webster -
No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
Fidel Castro -
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
Carine Roitfeld -
There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
Banksy
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
Rabih Alameddine -
The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
Naval Ravikant -
Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.
Ian Hacking -
By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.
Hans Vestberg -
I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
Kate Flannery -
I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
Edmund Hillary
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I wasn't always minimal. In the early days, I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. And then I grew tired of it as well.
Chris Raschka -
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
James Baldwin -
I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world.
Peter Greenaway -
I kind of like to be a sponge, in a way. So everywhere that I am, I like to keep an open mind and just get ideas from everything.
Bethany Mota -
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
Pope John Paul II -
America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
David Riesman