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.

  

  Paloma Faith
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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.

  

  Karl Rove
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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.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'

  

  Garret Dillahunt
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• I just want to sit in my room and write books.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.

  

  Samantha Smith
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• Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
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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.

  

  Sam Childers
  • America
  • Bad
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• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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  • Music
  • Way

• I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.

  

  Naomi Scott
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• The human race is governed by its imagination.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.

  

  Callie Khouri
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• It's always about the music, never about anything else.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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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.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
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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'.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• Presbyterians are 'the spirit of the Antichrist.' (Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, p. 239)

  

  Pat Robertson
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• Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.

  

  Leo Rosten
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• I don't believe Spiro Agnew is a crook. If he was a crook, he'd still be in office.

  

  Irwin Corey
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• The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

  

  Kirk Hammett Metallica
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• Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

  

  Evan Esar
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• Watching them, she realized they made so much sense together. Every look, every touch, was a reassurance, almost electric, as if they were shocking each other with every contact.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
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• The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

  

  Tony Blair
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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.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Independent
  • Workers
  • Commodity