William Stanley Jevons Quotes

All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

William Stanley Jevons

• Heart
• Interest
• Ability
• Trade
• Secrecy
• Boldness

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• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

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• The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.

  

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• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

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• When punk began to be a genre, people were going to go out and try to mine it. Some of the better groups, like the Ramones and the Sex Pistols, were very artificial.

  

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• After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.

  

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• With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

  

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• When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.

  

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• I am not taking anything for granted.

  

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• I don't want my work to be heavy. The challenge is to make it interesting and engaging, keeping in mind the need for method acting. This is what I have learnt from Bharat Muni's 'Natya Shastra' and from the Russian theatre legend Stanislavsky.

  

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• It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

  

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• We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.

  

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• I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

  

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• I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.

  

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• Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

  

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• Gansey asked, 'Do you have time to run an errand with us? Do you have work? Homework?''No homework. I got suspended,' Blue replied.'Get the fuck out,' Ronan said, but with admiration. 'Sargent, you asshole.'Blue reluctantly allowed him to bump fists with her.

  

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• Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.

  

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• I knew that was coming. That's another stupidity. The people who use the term don't even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or casually made, whatever you want to call it. Whatever terms you like. The fact is, when they're talking about snapshots they're talking about the family album picture, which is one of the most precisely made photographs.

  

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• The kind of energy I attract is very calm.

  

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• Left to itself the masculine imagination has very little appreciation for the here and now; it prefers to dwell on what is absent, on what has been or may be. If men are more punctual than women, it is because they know that, without the external discipline of clock time, they would never get anything done.

  

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• Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.

  

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• All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Heart
  • Interest
  • Ability