Neil Postman Quotes
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I want to do good stories, and I want to work with really interesting people. And if it's Noah Hawley forever, that's also amazing.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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What matters most is the win.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in 'Glass Sword' is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I'm glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.
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In Delhi, where I grew up, commerce is brusque. You don't ask each other how your day has been. You might not even smile. I'm not saying this is ideal - it's how it is. You're tied together by a transaction. The customer doesn't tremble before complaining about how cold his food is.
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Today, I see thousands of Mahatma Gandhis, Martin Luther Kings, and Nelson Mandelas marching forward and calling on us. The boys and girls have joined. I have joined in. We ask you to join, too.
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Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?
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Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
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I don't watch a lot of TV.
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When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic jokes. Straightforward stuff that was fairly ignorant that I knew would get the laugh. It wasn't flipping stereotypes; it was using them.
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I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.
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... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.
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Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.
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You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart.
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It’s utter sublimation, A feat, this heart’s control Moment to moment To scale all love down To a cupped hand’s size
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A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.
