William Graham Sumner Quotes

If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.

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• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
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• I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.

  

  Nathan Fielder
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• I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
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• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• Winners do what losers don't want to do.

  

  Gary Busey
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• An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
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• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
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• At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

  

  Candice Swanepoel
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• Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

  

  Laura Benanti
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• I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
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• I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.

  

  M. K. Hobson
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• I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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• Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
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• Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
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• If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but where the manners are corrupt, we must consistently hold up to view an austere morality.

  

  Madame de Stael
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• If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.

  

  Burnie Burns
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• You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.

  

  Eric Bana
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• Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.

  

  William Graham Sumner
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