Zygmunt Bauman Quotes

Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

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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As a standup comedian, you have to develop a sense of fearlessness. It's really important for your livelihood and your well-being. And if you don't do that, you're going to fail; you're never going to be able to stand up on the cliff and jump off.

John DiMaggio

Stand UpStandYouJumpImportant

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.

Andrew Wyeth

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As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.

John Catsimatidis

SupportLawLaw EnforcementDown

You can't replace luck and timing. With Workday, our timing was perfect. We started in 2005 right as cloud computing was beginning to take off.

Aneel Bhusri

BeginningLuckCloudYouPerfect

The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for 'Doctors Without Borders' in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.

Tom Brokaw

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If our country is to advance, let it be upon the legs of lessons well-learned.

Jared Polis

CountryLegsLessonsOurAdvance

I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me.

Johnny Mathis

HappyPeopleMeDoingBackPlace

Putting on weight for me is really, really hard. If I stop lifting, or if I stop eating, I get skinny really quick.

Christopher Gorham

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It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

Colin Powell

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My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.

Bobby Flay

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There've been a lot of TV programs on me in Russia.

Bryan Fogel

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Time itself comes in drops.

William James

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