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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Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.
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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being 'somebody,' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen.
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We need a president who is willing to uphold the law.
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I'd like to be the role model to teach other people who have Down's syndrome to be actors and actresses and to be themselves and not try to be a big shot.
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Peace is more difficult than war.
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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.
