"The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings."

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Source : Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.130, John Wiley & Sons

Anthony Giddens

#Risk Quotes #Body Quotes #Injury Quotes

“As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'”

Source : "One Day star Rafe Spall on Anne Hathaway, Ridley Scott and dad Tim". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.
“I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.”
“Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.”
“The past gives you no justice. Sentences are passed. But that doesn't mean you get justice. You can stand there forever and rail and say, 'Someone has to pay. I want what was taken from me.' But you're just going to get silence coming back at you. The past doesn't pay. We pay. And we're all free to decide when we've had enough.”
“The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.”
“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.”
“I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.”
“Adversity toughens manhood, and the characteristic of the good or the great man is not that he has been exempt from the evils of life, but that he has surmounted them.”

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