Shana Alexander Quotes
the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'
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More and more people in my country recognise the dangers of having their governors appointed by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.
Garry Kasparov -
What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.
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Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.
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What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.
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You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.
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I am not an originator but a transmitter.
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I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties. Only the Christian- Social movement, especially in Lueger's time achieved a certain virtuosity on this instrument, to which it owed many of its success.
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My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don't. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records.
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Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.
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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.
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People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.
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You have to live with your product, you have to know it through and through, you have to look at it, understand it, love it then, and only then, you can crystallize in one clear thought, one single theme, what must be conveyed about the product to the consumer.
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the metabolism of a consumer society requires it continually to eat and excrete, every day throwing itself away in plastic bags.
