George Ritzer Quotes
It was the mass sale and distribution of novels and newspapers that was critical to the rise of the imagined nation.
George Ritzer
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When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.'
Hari Kondabolu
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With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
Adam Osborne
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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.
Zoe Saldana
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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.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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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.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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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.
Rachele Brooke Smith
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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
George Bernard Shaw
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The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word - the note - is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.
Neal Ascherson
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What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.
David Eugene Smith
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You cannot fight the press, you cannot fight the media. They are the ones that will tell people what is going on, so I cannot fight the media. They said I’m crazy, I use cocaine. Well, I still use cocaine. I dey blow my nose, I dey smoke my Igbo. As I speak to you, I have cocaine in my pocket and in my house. I still dey use am. I can’t stop. How will you play music with a ‘normal eye’? You can’t be a good musician playing without getting high. Pastors dem dey high too. The truth is that you can’t be on the human level and give the message. The humans are looking up to you, so you must be superhuman to live up to their expectations.
Majek Fashek
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Before I started on 'Borgen', people introduced me to some great American box-sets to convince me that TV could be good. I now watch them all the time. Amy Poehler is very funny in 'Parks and Recreation' and 'In Treatment,' with Gabriel Byrne, is also really good.
Sidse Babett Knudsen
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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.
George Ritzer
