Antonio Gramsci Quotes
Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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Whatever road you've been given, enjoy that road.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?
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So many more people recognise you and want to take up a moment of your time for a photo or a hello. You try to deal with it with grace and a degree of humour, because what's the alternative?
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A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.
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I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.
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Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).
