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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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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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'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 auditioned for 'Avatar' in Australia. It was a 'blind' audition. I didn't know what the movie was about and whom it was for.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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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.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
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The Pulitzer Prize was established when Joseph Pulitzer died in 1911, leaving a bequest to create the eponymous award. An immigrant from Hungary, Pulitzer struck it rich by combining the 'St. Louis Post' and the 'St. Louis Dispatch' to make the - wait for it - 'St. Louis Post-Dispatch.'
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Make up your mind that you will become the seeker of your own higher self.
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To utter pleasant words without practicing them, is like a fine flower without fragrance.
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All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.
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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.
