George Ritzer Quotes
It was the mass sale and distribution of novels and newspapers that was critical to the rise of the imagined nation.
Quotes to Explore
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
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One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.
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There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
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Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
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My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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I once said some mean things about someone, and they were standing right behind me. That experience taught me to never talk bad about anyone.
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
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If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I am probably not a believer. But if you mean that it is not all accidental, that there is a mystery to existence, a deeper meaning, that I do believe in.
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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Don't hunt what you can't kill
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Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring - it has so many great places to go to and so many unique things to see that you won't find anywhere else!
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Long after the actual event has passed, the brain may keep sending signals to the body to escape a threat that no longer exists.
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It was the mass sale and distribution of novels and newspapers that was critical to the rise of the imagined nation.
