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Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Silence Talking You Stop Out Belong

I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own people.

People Stand Country Kind Oppression

I'm having everything. I'm a vegetarian, too. But in my mother's house, I eat whatever I'm served.

Mother House Eat Everything Whatever

Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

Michael Eric Dyson

Wisdom People Better American Learn

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

Good Story Trouble Good Story Dull

When I was a CEO, I thought I understood private equity. I didn't. And what I've learned since my retirement, and since becoming directly involved in the world of private equity, points the way to a new career path for thousands of talented senior executives - and a new engine for value creation.

Path Value World Thought Retirement

We aren't using Guantanamo Bay anymore to take additional terrorists. That was the perfect facility to be able to use to extract information from people to keep the American people safe.

Michele Bachmann

People American Information Perfect

Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable.

Life Step Kiss Look Person Lens

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Happiness Time Woman You Find Lost

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

Together I Am Fun Doing Acting More

The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He's not very popular, and has a chance to use his power to appoint an Obama replacement as a step in the direction of political rehabilitation.

Power Step Chance Story Direction

On 'Queer Eye,' I really get to see the way someone lives. They know the Fab Five are coming, but they don't know when or how, so our producers make sure they don't clean up so that we can experience exactly how they normally live.

Live Experience Eye Someone Know Up

In bluegrass, there's a lot of joke-telling and a lot of banter between bandmates. It's like improv or watching the 'Carol Burnett Show.'

Watching Improv Bluegrass Show Like

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