Neil Postman Quotes

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.

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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.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Create

• What matters most is the win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Win
  • Most
  • Matters

• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Outside

• 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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Think
  • Want
  • Lazy

• I never trusted good-looking boys.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Never

• Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Body

• 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.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Like

• I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Knowledge
  • Reading
  • Myself

• The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Heart
  • Here
  • Miami

• I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Good
  • Done
  • Exercise

• 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.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Together
  • Small
  • Flower

• There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Good
  • May
  • Pleasant

• 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.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • People
  • Character
  • Emotional

• 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.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Up
  • Together
  • Food

• 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.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Today
  • See
  • Kings

• Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?

  

  Garik Israelian
  • Alone
  • Question
  • Answer

• Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Why
  • Pool
  • Resources

• I don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Watch
  • Lot
  • TV

• Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories within the songs and they can become our version of events.

  

  Emeli Sande
  • People
  • Hope
  • Past

• In the film work, I love to work mainly from the script and from talking to the directors, so a lot of the music, big portions of the scores that I've made, have been composed before the movies were even shot.

  

  Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla Bajofondo
  • Work
  • Music
  • Movies

• After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American dream.

  

  Ellen Tauscher
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• I've always been very ambitious, and I always knew that I wanted something else. Cuba was a good start, but I knew I wasn't going to develop a real career, and I wanted to get closer to filmmakers that I wanted to work with.

  

  Ana de Armas
  • Good
  • Work
  • Real

• A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.

  

  Neil Postman