Charles C. Mann Quotes

Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.

Charles C. Mann

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KingsCozyYearsSitLightingUs

Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died... People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something.

Joanne Liu

DeathEmpathyLosingPeopleUsed

It's like a weird mindset to wake up and want to be wanted. Like, I want to be wanted so much already... and I'm so greedy for other people's desire that I have to really force myself to have some shame about it and some control, neither of which come easily to me.

Jenny Zhang

MyselfPeopleMeControlWake Up

I'd never ask an actor to do something I couldn't do - not that I'm the best actor in the world - but if I can do it, then I know that anyone I hire can do these things.

Rob Reiner

BestWorldI CanKnowActorNever

Everyone says 'Anna Karenina' is about individual desire going against society, but I actually think the opposite is stronger: the way societal forces limit the expression of the individual.

Mary Gaitskill

SocietyThinkStrongerDesireWay

I never authorized any payments for someone to be silent. I did not buy anyone's silence.

Michel Temer

SilenceSomeoneSilentNeverBuy

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

Ludwig Quidde

PeaceMaintenanceUniversalGuarantee

In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques.

Art Linkletter

LightTeenWorldSecretTopTurn

When I met Mourinho, I was still very young, but mentally and tactically, he worked on me. He was really demanding: you could not take a step below your level.

Arjen Robben

StepMeYouYoungTakeLevel

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Alice Walker

MindUnderstandFearsWorships

I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.

Winona Ryder

ThinkLovedRememberMoviesImagine

A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

Pope Benedict XVI

BeautyWayReasonWouldSomeStrip

Indian cinema gives you everything that western cinema doesn't. It's maseladar and spicy. If you like Indian food, I think you'll love Indian movies.

Shahid Kapoor

LoveFoodThinkYouCinemaMovies

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