John Fiske Quotes
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
Quotes to Explore
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People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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I'm on Tumblr all the time.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
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He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
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My head works in music, so there's always music there.
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I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
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With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.
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When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.
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I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
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Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
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There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles.
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We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is usually good for us.
