Karl Mannheim Quotes
For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.
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As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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'Hello Rabbit, is that you?''Let's pretend it isn't', said Rabbit, 'and see what happens.'
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Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung, Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.
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I remember Nessim once saying - that Alexandria was the great winepress of love;those who emerged from it were the sick men, the solitaries, the prophets-I mean all who have been deeply wounded in their sex.
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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
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Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, I've never had the sense I was 'making up' a character. It feels more like watching people reveal themselves, ever more deeply, more intimately.
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Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.
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Whenever we're on the red carpet, we look like competition winners. It's a joke.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.
