W. J. T. Mitchell Quotes
Stereotypes, I want to say, have to be thought of not just as these invidious, bad things that we could get rid of, but as images that we cannot get rid of, that we have to live with.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.
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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
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You have good days and bad days.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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After all, this is the Nation's ultimate judicial tribunal, nor a super-legal-aid bureau.
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My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.
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My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it.
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You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.
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People forget that in the early '70s, Saturday was the most-watched night of television of the week. It was where you found 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and 'All in the Family.'
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Stereotypes, I want to say, have to be thought of not just as these invidious, bad things that we could get rid of, but as images that we cannot get rid of, that we have to live with.
