Neil Postman Quotes
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.
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.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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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.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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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.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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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.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.
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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.
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President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military attack against our enemies, regardless of the risks and collateral damage, so long as it is over by the time I have to announce it.'
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Many of the patients in military and veterans hospitals require long stays, which can place a large financial hardship on families who don't live near the hospital, which is very common.
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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
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I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.
