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.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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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.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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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.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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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.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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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.
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I like to create stuff. I like to express myself through jokes.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
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Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.
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There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect what's happening on the court.
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The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.
