C. Wright Mills Quotes
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
Karen Thompson Walker -
I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
Kamala Harris -
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Caity Lotz -
I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
Naomi Klein -
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
Karen Abbott
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater -
Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
Ted Deutch -
Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
Action Bronson -
Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
Jack Klugman -
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
Kate DiCamillo
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
Ira Glass -
I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
Edgar Wright -
I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
Ira Glass -
Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
Maajid Nawaz -
A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
Tea Obreht -
I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.
Ziggy Marley
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I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.
Keith Olbermann -
I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.
Danny Meyer -
All eyes, all attention at the federal level, are on al Qaeda and the war on terror. Fact is, al Qaeda wouldn't last a day in parts of Philadelphia. I've got gangsters with .45s that would run them out of town.
Michael Nutter -
I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.
Tony Abbott -
That reality is 'independent' means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.
William James -
IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism=Sociology
C. Wright Mills