"The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective."

-- Jonah Goldberg

#Book Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Ideological Quotes

“This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the solar and astronomical periodicities on which there influence was originally based. With the surplus thus created, the priesthood was able to command human labor in huge amounts and to direct this labor from the simple tillage of the peasant peoples to the diversified and specialized activities that constitute civilized living.”
“To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.”
“Did you see that? Buffy just staked that poor vampire. He had yet to even do anything untowared, he just crawled out of his grave and she staked him. That is just not right. She is taking out her problems with that Angel fellow on a vampire, that is what she is doing.”
“I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.”
“Okay, why don't we practice your talking with Marguerite? OUT LOUD. I'll be her." Julius stared at him blankly. "Now?" "No, I was thinking maybe next April. Then you could maybe give her a call, arrange a date..." He arched his eyebrow in question, and snapped, "Yes, NOW.”
“WKRP [showed] something happening between people-there was something underneath about people trying to help each other out.”
“I love everything about you that hurts.”

Source : Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.70, Grove Press
“A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.”

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