C. Wright Mills Quotes
The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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People don't care about questionnaires.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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I've never been to the websites. It's a lot healthier for me to keep out of the conversations about me.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
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As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners, that we can't be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America.
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India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.
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At a small company, so much of the trick is focus. Not only can you only do a finite number of things, but you have to do them in the right order.
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More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.
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The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.
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The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
