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 -
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 -
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
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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.
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. -
Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
Patrick Lencioni
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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 -
I was never a model-y model. I was doing it as a job, but people didn't even know I was a model.
Olga Kurylenko
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
Ramana Maharshi -
The only films that really matter to me are the ones where there are characters whose interactions are moving.
Luke Davies -
Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!.
Ezra Pound -
To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For the Confederate Dead;' it has many different tones to it.
Kevin Young -
I prepare for a shoot by saturating my brain with images that have different moods or expressions.
Craig McDean -
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.
Neil Postman