Charles A. Reich (Charles Alan Reich) Quotes
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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I understand only three things - films, fitness, and food.
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The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.
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The theme of counterfeits, of those that produce and sell them, has always been part of the culture of M.I.A. When I was contacted by Versace, it seemed a great idea to invert the circle. Versace's designs have always been copied; now it's Versace that copies the copies, so those that copy must copy the copies. So this will continue.
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'Brutality!' cried Tristam. The class was at last interested. 'Beatings-up. Secret police. Torture in brightly lighted cellars. Condemnation without trial. Finger-nails pulled out with pincers. The rack. The cold-water treatment. The gouging out of eyes. The firing squad in the cold dawn. And all this because of disappointment. The Interphase.'
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No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling. (20 December 1939)
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To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.
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Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
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Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.
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I have that precious commodity - freedom. I can live my life a day at a time, and I am open to whatever the next day brings. I know I sound as if I have been off with some guru in India, but I haven't. I've come to realise the value of being able to decide for oneself.
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I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.
