"Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation."

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Source : Margaret M. Lock (2002). “Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death”, p.11, Univ of California Press

Margaret M. Lock

#Self Quotes #Life And Death Quotes #Disputes Quotes

“The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about”

Source : "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 08, 2002.
“I had done a couple TV pilots, and a friend of mine wanted to leave comics and come work in Hollywood, and I said, "Well, you've got to understand that when you sell a TV pilot, imagine if you turned in the best issue of Batman ever, and DC was like, 'Well we love this, but we can't publish it because we have to publish this other thing by this other person." The odds are really long on getting anything made, so if you come from comics and you're still making a living in comics, that really helps because you're not desperate for someone's permission to write for a living.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.”
“Make no compromise in quality.”
“Android is a new form of the other, but you can parallel the other to so many different types of people. Even if you don't consider yourself to be the other, at one point in time I'm sure you felt like that.”
“Everything I need now is here”
“I love not serious documentaries, too, but I love seeing people at their wits' end, I guess.”
“You can NEVER rise higher than your expectations of yourself. Expect the BEST!”

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