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C. L. R. James Quotes

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

C. L. R. James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: trinidadian
Birth: January 4, 1901 - May 19, 1989

Topics

Capitalism Know Europe Quarter Last

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

Jhonen Vasquez

Work People Cool Audience Like

I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.

Andrew Haigh

People Me Think Cinema Everyday Odd

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

Robert Schumann

Good Money I Am Window You Forget

If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet Boys. Old Fans or new fans, it's all the same to us.

Travis Barker

Good Time Listening Play New First

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

Michel de Montaigne

Ugly Me Find Dare Worst Seem

When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.

Michel Hazanavicius

Speak You Movies Silent First

I'm finally my dad's favourite because Kevin Costner is playing him.

Molly Bloom

Him Playing Because Finally Kevin

A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.

Don Henley

Man Gun More Steal Than Any

I have a go at defenders, and they have a go at me. We argue... Whatever happens on the pitch stays on the pitch.

Diego Costa

Me Go Whatever Happens Argue Stays

I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

Dhani Harrison

Used Being Still Maybe Getting

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

Donnie Yen

Man Mentor Country Living Asian

We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.

Christopher Lee

Work Good Grace Choice Want Kind