Charles Eisenstein Quotes
For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and anxiety.
Quotes to Explore
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
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Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.
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I've always played characters that were younger than myself.
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The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula.
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Now don't you dare call me normal. I was never a Pollyanna. There was always a lot of Theodora in me.
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6) Everybody talks first draft.
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That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
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Whenever someone great passes, all of us have a loss.
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Climate change is real.
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Coming into high school, it's scary. You don't know which group to be in, and I can't stand that it's so cliquey.
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When somebody says, 'Oh, Buffy, you're such a warrior for peace', I stop them and say, 'No, I'm not really a warrior for peace. What I promote is alternative conflict resolution'.
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I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
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I always feel like the hammer's going down right around the corner, and I think that level of constant anxiety is what keeps us from getting too lazy.
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You could put me on a stage in front of 100 people, and I could do a tap dance, but one-on-one was really difficult for me. And it took me most of my life to learn how to work with that anxiety, to embrace and be comfortable with it.
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For a machine to run smoothly and predictably, its parts must be standard and hence replaceable, features which contribute, respectively, to modern depersonalization and anxiety.
