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by Putin and having no influence in parliament because Parliament today is also following instructions from Kremlin and no longer represents its people.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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I felt before I thought.
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My agent called me up and said, 'There is a tremendous female lead in the new 'Star Wars' film, and I think you're really going to like it.' The opportunity to play someone determined, who's trying to find her skills as a leader; to be in a fantasy movie; to be able to do a leading female role in a film of that scale - that's very, very rare.
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Seeing your work go into storage in an art museum is obviously a tragedy of any cultural product - which doesn't mean I am anti-institutional.
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We're not citizens anymore. We're consumers. That's what we're called. It's just like being an alcoholic and being in denial that you're an alcoholic. We're in denial that each and every one of us is the problem. And until we face up to that, nothing's going to happen.
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Building a smarter grid has long been a key part of our government's plan to modernize our energy infrastructure and provide clean, reliable affordable power to consumers. By supporting Ryerson's Centre for Urban Energy we are building a whole new landscape for innovations that will be the backbone for our energy system for future generations.
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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.
