Neil Postman Quotes
As technical people, we are apt to be preoccupied with scores, not competence...
Neil Postman
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
Daisy Ashford
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
Candis Cayne
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
Taylor Dayne
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
Abigail Washburn
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Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.
Dan Simmons
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I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.
Sally Ride
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
Warren Zevon
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You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.
Rand Paul
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I worked at the crossroads of policy and operations. I kind of bring all that experience together because homeland security is a team sport, and I've played almost every role, every player, every team.
Kirstjen Nielsen
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What our profession is all about is interacting with people.
Lorin Maazel
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As technical people, we are apt to be preoccupied with scores, not competence...
Neil Postman