Kate Crawford Quotes
Many of us now expect our online activities to be recorded and analyzed, but we assume the physical spaces we inhabit are different. The data broker industry doesn't see it that way. To them, even the act of walking down the street is a legitimate data set to be captured, catalogued, and exploited.
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I don't get recognised that much in the street.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
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Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.
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All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.
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It's ok to FAIL it's not ok to Quit
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The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.
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I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.
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If there is an option to use a real human being and to have a chat with somebody and do your shopping that way, I do try and do that.
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Many of us now expect our online activities to be recorded and analyzed, but we assume the physical spaces we inhabit are different. The data broker industry doesn't see it that way. To them, even the act of walking down the street is a legitimate data set to be captured, catalogued, and exploited.
