Talcott Parsons Quotes

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

Talcott Parsons

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ProblemsFactsWillStructureSystem

I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

Meg Rosoff

LifeLoveIdentityWorldThinkLong

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

TodayArtWorldImpossibleCinema

You learn you have to accept the way things are, and the sooner you accept them, the sooner you become at peace with them, and then the things start to get better.

Ana Ivanovic

PeaceStartBetterLearnYouBecome

For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.

Ron Ben-Israel

MeCreatingSugarRealWorkingBeen

I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.

Lisa Ling

HusbandNeverOkayNeedSameEven

We live in a classist, racist, homophobic society into which we are very assimilated, that's all. I'm not really proud about that.

Diego Luna

LiveSocietyProudHomophobicVery

2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bunch of money, buying a bunch of Twitter. I saw my friend fired as CEO of Twitter. Uber was growing like a weed. As these companies get bigger and bigger, there's more and more friction. Being public was the last thing I wanted to do at the time.

Chris Sacca

FriendTimeMoneyCareerGrowing

Pablo Picasso was generous. But he always signed and dedicated his gifts even when he knew that people would sell them because they needed the money.

Claude Picasso

MoneyPeopleAlwaysSellGenerous

We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.

William Watson

LightHateChoiceCarelessHoldOur

I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

WritingYouGoSometimesSayNeed

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

Pope John XXIII

LightBeginningChurchNowLike

I learned that when life pulls you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again.

Sheryl Sandberg

LifeYouBreatheBottomBreakKick

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