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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If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.
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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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There are items that have far superior quality when manufactured in space, but need to be returned to Earth to be purchased and used by customers.
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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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I collect things that just look retarded.
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I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.
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I've been amazed by the success of 'The Great British Bake Off.' I've been 'rediscovered' at the age of 76. When I was asked to be a judge, I said I wanted to be myself. I didn't want to shout like some other television judges. I also said I was a very bad bread maker, so would the programme makers find someone to help on the bread scene?
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When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.
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Ideology is a system of beliefs, held in common by the members of a collectivity.
