Charles Eisenstein Quotes
The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up in the indie world, and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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A utopian future for the Internet could be secured if the heavy-duty influencers - and the grassroots influencers tweeting along - can create a new global organization peopled with defenders of Internet freedom.
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My father is my inspiration.
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Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
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I don't chase what I hear on the radio. I try not to compete with anybody.
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[Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.
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Marriage is a big word for all guys,” Shane said. “You know that. It’s kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.
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If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.
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In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.
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We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.
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Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.
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And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.
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When someone is 90, and you've seen their entire life, you just think you know everything about them and that they must live a straight-laced life.
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The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.
