Neil Postman Quotes
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.Neil Postman
Quotes to Explore
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
Maggie Rowe -
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. Milne -
Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
Ralph Richardson -
Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
Nancy Roman -
Clinton saw himself much more as the steward of alliances and of consensus that moved in the right direction. He didn't see himself as someone who could change the overall thrust, I think, of global policy.
Barton Gellman -
It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
Yoko Ono
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
Hanif Kureishi -
I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
Olga Kurylenko -
I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
Nate Berkus -
I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
Mahershala Ali -
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
Patrick White -
I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
Patrick Lencioni -
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken -
Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
W. Clement Stone -
There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.
Sam Jaeger -
First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.
Haley Reinhart
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl Sagan -
Getting a beginner publishing deal really helped me gain the skills. I just kept writing and writing. You just take everything out of life and turn it into an idea or a melody or a song and find the best writers you can to write with that fit you and know what you want to do.
Jon Pardi -
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor -
I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.
Alex Cox -
The great multitudes continue to develop; the new ideas continue to attain their proper force within society; the material possibilities for the full development of all members of society make the task much more fruitful. The present is a time for struggle; the future is ours.
Che Guevara -
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.
Neil Postman