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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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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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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I'm a character actor, so I don't take the hit if the movie's bad, the lead does. So, I don't want to be the lead. He takes the hit, I don't.
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Pop music is a constant reminder of what you were doing at the time, it holds all sorts of memories.
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But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.
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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.
