Charles Eisenstein Quotes
When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'
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There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.
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When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
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I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.
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You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.
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Every day I do something that freaks me out.
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The minute we leave south Lebanon we will have to erase the word Hezbollah from our vocabulary, because the whole idea of the State of Israel versus Hezbollah was sheer folly from the outset. It most certainly no longer will be relevant when Israel returns to her internationally recognized northern border.
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If you're comfortable with who you are, it shows in your walk.
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As long as you're centering back to home base, and that's the strongest magnet in your life, that everything else is okay.
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.
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The fact that you can love something that you've lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.
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He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record.
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What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
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I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.
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I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.
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When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.
