C. Wright Mills Quotes

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

C. Wright Mills

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Since 2000, we have lost 2.7 million manufacturing jobs, of which 500,000 jobs were in high-tech industries such as telecommunications and electronics.

Jerry Costello

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There's a part of me that looks beyond everything now.

Andrew Sarris

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I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.

Melissa McCarthy

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I would love to do parts I have never done before, but unfortunately, if you have had success in a particular type of character, the casting agents think, 'Oh! We'll have something exactly like that.' It's very boring.

Max von Sydow

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I'm very comfortable being at home and keeping my head down, really. It's nice being invited to night clubs and stuff, which is nice once in a while, but I prefer to kind of keep to myself.

Matthew Lewis

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If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I would rather spend it with my kids.

Stephen Colbert

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I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

Tony Judt

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It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

Mary Daly

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There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Milton Friedman

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I support offering the public option to members of Congress, and as soon as I'm given the chance, I intend to go on it.

Jared Polis

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When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.

Donald Hall

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So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.

Chris Bell

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