Erich Fromm Quotes

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Erich Fromm

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DreamsGreatWorldBusyLanguage

We grew up on Scorsese and Coppola and '70s crime thrillers.

Joe Russo

CrimeUpGrewThrillersScorsese

The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.

Anat Cohen

MeMoreClarinetThanChose

To me, score is really important. I would rather not have any score if it's something that's going to detract from the film. So often when I watch films, the score is what really bothers me.

Steve Buscemi

MeImportantWatchSomethingGoing

I'm very resistant to most forms of theater.

Steven Berkoff

MostTheaterVeryFormsResistant

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

Simon Baker

ThinkTalkingYouRebelDownKids

I never thought about settling down. I was obsessed with my career - I was blinkered. I finally met a woman who was worthy of me. Then we settled down and had many children.

Ron Moody

ChildrenWomanMeThoughtCareer

Despite my professional experience, the fifteen-hour workdays, and a successful new show that I had helped build, MSNBC was still refusing to pay me what I was worth.

Mika Brzezinski

ExperienceMeWorthProfessionalNew

I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.

Michael Moore

VoiceYouKnowNewspaperYearsOut

I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin.

Jay Chandrasekhar

I AmNameComfortableHiddenNever

There is evidence that we are headed into what would be the planet's sixth mass extinction. It's hard to know for sure if you're in one because a mass extinction is an event where over 75 percent of the species on the planet die out over a - usually about a million-year period. The fastest it might happen is in hundreds of thousands of years.

Annalee Newitz

DieYouKnowHardOverOut

The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.

Athol Fugard

LoveBlessingUglyPeopleGrowing Up

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Susan George

CapitalismLogicKindProfitable

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