C. L. R. James Quotes

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

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• Anonymity breeds meanness.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Anonymity
  • Meanness
  • Breeds

• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Science
  • You
  • Fiction

• My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Trying
  • You
  • Stop

• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Comedy

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Child

• I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Think
  • Black
  • Uplifting

• I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Book

• I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Work
  • Talent
  • Hard Work

• I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Writing
  • Want

• I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Know
  • Dreaming
  • Expecting

• What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • You
  • Always

• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Why
  • Business
  • Character

• There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Long
  • Me
  • Confidence

• If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Want
  • You

• When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Age
  • Responsibility
  • Sleep

• Learning to accept failure on multiple levels is, to my way of thinking, the key to become a world-class therapist. But that means humility, and setting your ego aside, while you develop superb new technical skills.

  

  David D. Burns
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Learning

• A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Home
  • View
  • Debt

• My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Mother

• It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• If I had a place with a studio where I could paint I'd be happy.

  

  Bruno Tonioli
  • Happy

• The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Home
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  • Isolation