Arlie Russell Hochschild Quotes
I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.
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I'm very conscious of Miguel Cotto's career... I need to do my part on that night to have victory and create my own legacy in this sport of boxing.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
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One day, someone said to me, 'Do you want to go jump out of an airplane?' I felt like I had nothing to lose anymore, so I said, 'Why not?' And every day since then, I ask myself that question.
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Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.
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Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
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I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.
