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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I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
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No one promised life would be easy or that the game wouldn't change without warning. There you are, all ready to pass Go and collect two hundred dollars, and suddenly Colonel Mustard is trapped in the conservatory, ranting and raving and waving a wrench, and no one knows what exactly a conservatory is or why anyone thought a wrench - of all things - would be a good murder weapon, or what branch of the military Colonel Mustard even served in! Has anyone seen his credentials?
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The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.
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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.
