C. Wright Mills Quotes
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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A person who is shallow aspires to depth; one who is ugly aspires to beauty; one who is narrow aspires to breadth; one who is poor aspires to wealth; one who is humble aspires to esteem. Whatever one lacks in oneself he must seek outside.
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You know how trends go with television. Next year, the networks might not be open to taking risks.
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I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.
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You mean the world to me Oh I know I've found in you My endless love.
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Successful business leaders who have helped build institutions of lasting value - all are committed to talent and a culture of excellence. This is usually accomplished by the identification, retention, and development of great people.
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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.