Quotes with wright

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  • Orville Wright If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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  • Steven Wright If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.
    Foreword, The Marxists (1962)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Steven Wright If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Steven Wright Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Ben van Berkel In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • C. Wright Mills In the formulas of 'personnel experts', men and women are to be shaped into the 'well rounded, acceptable, effective personality.' Just like small proprietors, they cannot higgle over prices, which are fixed, or 'judge the market' and accordingly buy wisely.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • C. Wright Mills In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bonnie Wright It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.
    Bonnie Wright
    English actress, model and activist (1991 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Kindness and friendliness become aspects of personalized service or of public relations of big firms, rationalized to further the sale of something. With anonymous insincerity, the Successful Person thus makes an instrument of his own appearance and personality.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Steven Wright Like other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • C. Wright Mills Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Steven Wright My secret to staying young... Having no sense of time.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Steven Wright My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
    The Sociological Imagination
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Marian Wright Edelman No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
    Marian Wright Edelman
    American activist for children's rights (1939 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • C. Wright Mills Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951) Section One: The Competitive Way of Life.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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