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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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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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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The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.
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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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When you retire you go from Who's Who to Who's That?
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Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.
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But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
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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.
