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Cornel West Quotes

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: June 2, 1953

Topics

Clever Cheap Distraction Yield Mass

The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British counties closest to my city home in Birmingham, is whether or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep enough to foul my socks.

Fear Home City Me Deep Enough

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Happiness Man Thoughts Care May His

I've been in Hamburg for about ten years and I just feel at home.

Andrew Eldritch

Home Feel Ten Years Years Been Just

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Understand Expensive Got Film Even

If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?

Good Song Why Film Get Role

I love playing an alien.

Sigourney Weaver

Love Alien Playing I Love

When movies work or a TV series, when they really work, it's because of the collaborative effort. Competition is the death knell for anything, in my opinion. Especially in Hollywood. When actors are competing against each other, or when directors are competing against actors, it's usually the beginning of the end.

Work Beginning Death Effort Opinion

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it wasn't England so much as what went before.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Experience I Am Me Writing Language

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Nature Words Man Space Meaning Lost

When you cook, you get to shop. You get to vote if you want the pastured raised pork or the organic grain. You can get to help produce your agricultural system, and you give that up when you outsource your cooking. You become dependent on what's offered - and that's a shame.

Cooking Help You Want Vote Become

From abundance springs satiety.

Abundance Springs

Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history.

Good History Woman World Moments

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