C. Wright Mills Quotes
To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
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It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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And what a clever guy this Harpole is, isn’t he? Awfully good at noticing all kinds of little unusual things about people and keeping them on file in his head. So he’s built a theory around us, has he? He added two and two and came up with five, but nobody else in the house was aware there was anything to count.
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Our whole culture in this country now is so conformist. I don't even meet that many freaks any more.
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People think money is life and your life is over if you lose it.
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In a way, I don't want to know what's being said in casting offices, because it can get pretty brutal, and I don't want to have to think about the reasons why I don't get one job or do get one job.
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To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
