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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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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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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I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.
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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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On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.
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Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.
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But it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.
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Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
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The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
