Raymond Williams Quotes
Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.
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Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
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I don't know anyone male or female who can quote-unquote have it all. It's a made-up idea. Men don't have it all. They may have it better because they get paid more for the same work, but they don't have it all.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
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A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.
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Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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They know too many things they should not know and they do not know some things they need to know.
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There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well.
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I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district.
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It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.
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I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
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Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.
