C. Wright Mills Quotes
As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.
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I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
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Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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We tend to think of extremes of emotions as registering, for example, you have to cry or laugh or get angry. But for the most part, we find it difficult to read each other most of the time. If you walk through the street, most people are pretty difficult to read. But they're thinking inside.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!'
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I also know that there are a lot of people around the United States who want my husband to win and who are for him and who support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. And I feel good about those people, too.
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'Hamilton' is revolutionary in terms of writing.
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What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
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As we watch TV or films, there are no organic transitions, only edits. The idea of A becoming B, rather than A jumping to B, has become foreign.
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Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.
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As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
