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.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Hate

• 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?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Way
  • Shoes
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Person
  • Theory
  • Him

• I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Women
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

  

  Beck
  • Write
  • Just
  • Go

• Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Me
  • Something
  • Happen

• 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.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Google

• 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.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Communication

• 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.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Good
  • American

• As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women
  • Children
  • History

• 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

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Good
  • Work
  • Heart

• 'Hello Rabbit, is that you?''Let's pretend it isn't', said Rabbit, 'and see what happens.'

  

  A. A. Milne

• Such were the notes thy once lov'd poet sung, Till death untimely stopp'd his tuneful tongue.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Death

• 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.

  

  Lawrence Durrell
  • Great
  • Men
  • Remember

• The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.

  

  Colin Powell
  • People
  • Effort
  • Competition

• Some of my favorite memories happened in the 'Boy Meets World' classroom.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • World
  • Boy
  • Memories

• I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Time

• To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

  

  David Hume
  • Christian
  • Philosophical

• I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.

  

  Pierre Schaeffer
  • World
  • Fire

• I never avoided the media. Truly, speaking I don’t have any grudges. See, I am ready to give all the answers. Actually, I have changed. There was a time, when I would show my annoyance but every action is guided by a reason. The media annoyed me. I still feel there are certain questions, which are personal, which only my parents or maybe the ones who are really close to me have the right to ask.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Action

• Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • War
  • Kind
  • Stupidity

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.

  

  Karl Mannheim
  • People
  • Past
  • Conservative