Karl Marx Quotes
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
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Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces.
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The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
