Neil Postman Quotes
I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.
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They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.
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The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.
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I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.
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We just decided to pick the date 'The Matrix' opened in most of the world. At the end of the day, it worked out really great because the world seems to have got to a place where I think the movie is even more relevant now than it was several months ago.
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I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.
