Arlie Russell Hochschild Quotes
The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What this allows us to ignore is how each of those American companies is really in competition with the families of the workers. That's the real competition.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I take my work seriously.
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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery.
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How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?
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Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.
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I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it takes 100 percent concentration on every step.
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There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.
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The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What this allows us to ignore is how each of those American companies is really in competition with the families of the workers. That's the real competition.
