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.'

  

  J. August Richards
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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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• 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
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  • Want

• People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
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  • Music
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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
  • Communication

• They know too many things they should not know and they do not know some things they need to know.

  

  Ai Weiwei

• This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future.

  

  Jim Cooper
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• But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
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• Yeah, I feel good. Good about my game and my life.

  

  Lee Westwood
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• In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

  

  Alan Dundes

• Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost.

  

  Chauncey Depew
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• Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was always the one walking around with tweezers plucking my girlfriends' eyebrows. I was really good; eyebrow tweezing runs in my family - my mother used to do mine, and I picked it up.

  

  Rita Ora
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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
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