Michael Harrington Quotes
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
Quotes to Explore
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.
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I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.
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I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.
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There's always something that needs attention when you own a property.
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In Salford, we had fish in our tap water. I remember, one hot summer day, running to the toilet at playtime and dunking our heads in a sink full of water. I remember putting my head in and seeing all these little fish in it.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
