C. Wright Mills Quotes
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.

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Tone can be as important as text.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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I've always been a very harsh judge of talent because if you don't play the game on both ends of the court, and if you don't play hard every night, I'm probably not going to be in love with you as a player. I'm going to respect you because you're good, but these players are unique.
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A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases - but bland girls don't influence me. I don't like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.
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I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.
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War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.