C. Wright Mills Quotes
As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
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As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.
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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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I think people are going to like my new shoes. I like them. I had a lot of success with the one last year, but this year's shoe is going to be a little different, but at the same time it's going to be a little spin-off on last year's shoe.
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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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There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?
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My favorite place is whichever sidewalk is beneath my feet because I am just constantly fascinated by walking and looking and learning. If I've already walked a street five times, then the next five times I walk it looking up, and I learn something about the cornices.
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Yoga is sort of like acting because it's something you don't really know about - how it happens, why it works. You just do the poses, and you get the benefits. I like sharing that. And I think I have a talent for touching people, getting them in tune with their bodies.
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You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.
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As a proportion of the labor force, fewer individuals manipulate things, more handle people and symbols.
