Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

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• Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Door
  • Step
  • First Step

• I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Always
  • Never

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • Real
  • Food
  • Community

• Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

  

  Rabindranath Maharaj
  • Home
  • City
  • Internet

• I just don't think men fancy me.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Men
  • Think
  • Me

• Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

  

  W. D. Richter
  • Why
  • Space
  • Always

• I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Play
  • Myself
  • Piano

• Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Education
  • Support
  • Learning

• When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Couple
  • Weird
  • Cutting

• I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Beginning
  • Understand
  • Moss

• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Change
  • Waiting

• Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

  

  Gary Chapman
  • Love
  • Person
  • Reaching

• The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.

  

  Earl Butz
  • You
  • Difference
  • Worked

• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Choice
  • Miserable
  • Motivate

• The homegrown terrorists are the most significant because any fighter returning from Syria to the United States would likely be identified and detected by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Law
  • Intelligence

• I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Why
  • Simple

• The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • World
  • History
  • Past

• I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.

  

  James Murphy
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Fighting

• It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

  

  Donald Berwick
  • World
  • American
  • Health

• The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

  

  Martha Roby
  • People
  • American
  • Giving

• We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

  

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