Marvin Harris Quotes
There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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Every triumph is also a defeat, and the ecstasies of those who prevail are matched by the agonies of those who lose.
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The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way.
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We as a music community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.
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There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, let's look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs.
