Talcott Parsons Quotes
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.Talcott Parsons
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
Wayne Dyer -
I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!
Barry Humphries -
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
Jacky Ickx -
I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.
Felicia Day -
I came from the bottom. Now I'm the main event and UFC champion.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
Yahya Jammeh
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
Canelo Alvarez -
The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.
Randy Wayne White -
What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
Walter Annenberg -
Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
Gabriel Byrne -
A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
Fede Alvarez -
In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.
Naomi Campbell
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
Maggie Smith -
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
Aaron Sorkin -
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
Gary Oldman -
Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
Larry Ellison -
Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
Carly Patterson -
I joined NOW on an issue of pay.
Karen DeCrow
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I think the biggest part of this was the fact that we were coming into an arena where the guys were 0-7.
Allen Iverson -
When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
Salman Rushdie -
If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need more of are people with the guts and emotional labour to do this. The greatest shortage in today's society is an instinct to produce.
Seth Godin -
I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
Harold Ramis -
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
Talcott Parsons