C. Wright Mills Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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There weren't many options growing up, so I would wear whatever possible. I once saw a little boy wearing Jordan sneakers in a movie... and that made me dream.
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I'm in a position where, if you have the ability, you should use it well. To get things done.
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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
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You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
