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.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver
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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.
Hannes Alfven
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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.
Yoko Ono
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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.
Karin Slaughter
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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.
Rafael Nadal
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Have the courage to act instead of react.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
Yoko Ono
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
Gary Cole
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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.
Oscar Robertson
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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.
Candice Bergen
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
Lady Gaga
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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.
Taylor Swift
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams
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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.
Garth Ennis
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
J. Christopher Burch
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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.
Gavin Newsom
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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.
Quincy Jones
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I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
Samina Baig
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I was a tomboy and I didn't have a bunch of brothers but I always wanted them and so I sort of adopted a few of my great friends to be my brother.
Olivia Wilde
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Chef Thomas Keller was an inspiration to me and many, many young cooks like me. He told us that the role of the new, modern chef is different.
David Chang
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What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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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.
C. Wright Mills