Walter Rodney Quotes
After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
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The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
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I started playing violin in the 5th grade. They had a program in school where you could get out of class to go play instruments. So I raised my hand, left out of class, me and a bunch of my homeboys, just to get out of class for that day. They asked what instrument you wanted to play and I picked the violin.
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I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.
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The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
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I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Few people know what they mean when they say, "I love you." ... Well, what does the word love mean? It means total interest. I think the reason very few people really fall in love with anyone is they're not willing to pay the price. The price is you have to adjust yourself to them.
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I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me.
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A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.
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Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.
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And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...
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Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.
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The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.
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Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.
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No one is saved by good works (Ephesians 2:8-9), but every Christian has been saved for good works (verse 10).
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
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For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.
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The internal sexism within womanhood is very predominant in Hollywood, because we all want to be successful. There's a plug to it: You all have to be skinny! You all have to be pretty! You all have to be likable, because that's the formula that works. On an executive level. On a power level. And it's not always the same working with black people, because of the internalized racism. The colorism.
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What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are habituated, if not addicted, to seeing the world in class terms.
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After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.
