Talcott Parsons Quotes
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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History is not hatred.
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
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We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pipeline for its nuclear ambitions.
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I definitely feel excited to be able to put really hard beats - like hip-hop beats - behind my music, more than I did before.
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'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are.
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All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain.
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I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.
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Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with.
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'I don't want to! Why should I?' 'Because more people will be happier if you do than if you don't.' 'So what? I don't care about other people.' 'You should.' 'But why?' 'Because more people will be happier if you do than if you don't.'
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I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.
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A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that's definitely reassuring.
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I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'
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There are many people of color who are very talented.
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You'd just die if you put your head to the grindstone.
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Sam believes now that people repeatedly collide with each other swiftly, brutally – not to produce children but to shatter their sense of self, and be thrust into a creative space beyond reason, where anything can happen. Only through the destruction of psychological borders is freedom possible.
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He ran the first pop culture campaign to show that he was an ordinary person and it was incredibly effective, things really began to change in the 1960s with the use of pop culture TV.
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My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.
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I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.
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Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.
