Arlie Russell Hochschild Quotes
Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.
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My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
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I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
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He wrote Helen that 'a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you.'
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I lose things all the time. I used to lose my license all the time before I put a place in my car for it.
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I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year and a half, on the road with nothing on my mind but getting my act good enough to be on 'The Tonight Show.'
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I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must, Scared by some After-reckoning ta'en on trust, Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink, To fill the Cup - when crumbled into Dust!
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Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.
