John Berger Quotes
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.
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I do know what it's like to worry about bills, I do know what it's like to worry about even finding a child-minder, never mind paying them.
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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
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I play golf - badly.
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There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.
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I'm quite surprised that nobody has asked me to do my own line of tweezers. I totally would love to do that. Or, like, mascara. Cara's Mascara!
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I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.
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If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
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Perhaps the most important thing one can discover through the practice of meditation is that the 'self'-the conventional sense of being a subject, a thinker, an experiencer living inside one's head-is an illusion.
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The free man is a warrior.
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
