Eric Wolf Quotes
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
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To be rude to someone is not my nature.
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The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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I love nature. I'm not going to do anything to detract from it.
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Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.
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Club culture is about leaving your cares behind, and I am trying to create that environment.
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The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.
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Every phenomenon can be experienced in two ways. These two ways are not arbitrary, but are bound up with the phenomenon – developing out of its nature and characteristics : Externally – or – inwardly.
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If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.
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The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
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Nothing is art if it does not come from nature.
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There's been an unquestionable decline in American culture. The education system is thin on the ground. People don't read as deeply and at length as they used to. And the media has been scattered into so many cable channels.
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I'm never very quiet; that's not my nature.
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So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.
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One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press.
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All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.
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Man rises up against nature by means of what we would today call culture.
