Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

Partnerships are increasingly seen through the prism of promises and expectations, and as a kind of product for consumers: satisfaction on the spot, and if not fully satisfied, return the product to the shop or replace it with a new and improved one! You don't, after all, stick to your car, or computer, or iPod, when better ones appear.

Zygmunt Bauman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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CarPromisesPartnershipsBetterYou

Television has been really good to me in terms of the roles I've been able to get on TV as opposed to the roles I've gotten in film and in theater.

Joe Morton

GoodMeTelevisionFilmGetBeen

Let's get right to it: On page 5 of Paul Murray's dazzling new novel, 'Skippy Dies,'... Skippy dies. If killing your protagonist with more than 600 pages to go sounds audacious, it's nothing compared with the literary feats Murray pulls off in this hilarious, moving and wise book.

Jess Walter

WiseMovingBookNewPageNothing

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!

Maxine Kumin

TodayAloneSimpleLieSchoolFacts

There's a difference between lying and not being straight.

Michael Finkel

LyingDifferenceBeingStraight

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

Amy Lee

WorkLoveTeacherWantWouldKids

Music reality shows provide a platform to people who have talent and gives them visibility and exposure. It is a win-win situation for participants.

Shreya Ghoshal

MusicTalentPeopleRealityWin-Win

Every player would love to get to the absolute top, and Real Madrid is it.

Luis Suarez

LoveTopRealGetWouldMadrid

In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his transformation in a process that's explained not through the supernatural but the natural or, at least, through biochemistry.

Joshua Cohen

HeroTransformationProcessThrough

I just have one brother, younger than me.

Joseph Morgan

BrotherMeJustThanYounger

Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.

Dmitry Medvedev

BusinessLookingPushWayOthers

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Aristotle

PresentDownBringOnlyYourMeans

I hope that one day the people of Quebec will one day be a part of the concert of nations. This is an internal debate. This will happen when Quebecers are ready.

Pauline Marois

HopeDayPeopleDebateReadyWill

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