C. Wright Mills Quotes
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores. I collect furniture, rugs, paintings, frames. It's my hobby to go around to shops and markets.
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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
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I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.
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We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
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If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
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When you do not know of a thing say so plainly.
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His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
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What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.
