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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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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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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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
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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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In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.
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But I'm aware of the fact that I'm working in a commercial venue where I'm producing something that I wouldn't normally be approaching the way I'm doing it.
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I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.
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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.
