Anthony Giddens Quotes
A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) The selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly insignificant, slipping away. Earth's seven oceans seem vast and impenetrable, but a closer look tells another story.
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I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.
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My dad worked two jobs his whole life, and so I told him he's the reason I have 20 jobs.
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Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.
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I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.
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Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.
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Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble.
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Improving some of the rules under which the Senate functions can begin to replace some of the bad habits Washington has developed with better ones.
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When I told my parents that I was starting my transition, my Dad said, 'Well that makes so much more sense 'cause I never saw you any other way and now it totally works.'
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A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security - that connects options in a more or less ordered pattern. (...) The selection or creation of lifestyles is influenced by group pressures and the visibility of role models, as well as by socioeconomic circumstances.
