Daniel Bell Quotes
What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.
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To me, 'sexy' is a kind of beauty, a kind of self-expression, one that is to be celebrated.
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You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
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The cable model is just a better model. Dual revenue stream: advertising-supported and subscription-supported revenues.
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I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.
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It’s never a good idea to organize society in a way that depletes the energy of half the population.
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What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.
