Neil Postman Quotes
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.Neil Postman
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
Venus Williams -
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Sam Walton -
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan -
Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
Manoj Bhargava -
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
Ingmar Bergman -
Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
Candice Swanepoel
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
Barry Mann -
I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
Carla Bruni -
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
Vanessa Hudgens -
The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
Manika -
What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
Foster Friess -
At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
Dan Colen
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
J. K. Simmons -
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
T. D. Jakes -
I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
Padmasree Warrior -
I auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
Sam Worthington -
'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
Nancy Gibbs
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
Cameron Diaz -
I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
Patrick Ness -
I'm not to eager to play tennis in my spare time. I'm more interested in doing gym work and stuff like that. We have a lot of schools and courts around where I live, so if I really want to play, I don't need to go too far.
Lleyton Hewitt -
There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.
Bill Sienkiewicz -
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.
Ang Lee -
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
Neil Postman