Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

Zygmunt Bauman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: November 19, 1925 - January 9, 2017

Topics

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Only God can look at somebody's heart.

Joel Osteen

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I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true.

Missi Pyle

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If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.

Judah Friedlander

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It's just keeping what I want private, private, and the same with Charlie.

Denise Richards

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Success can be a very difficult thing to deal with.

Christian Slater

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Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.

Cornel West

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There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.

Arne Jacobsen

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We must do our utmost to preserve our British ally's strategic independence from Europe.

Richard Perle

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My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself.

Ryan Holiday

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Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.

Marilyn Nelson

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What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.

James Wolcott

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I'm ashamed to be German.

Helmut Jahn

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