Neil Postman Quotes

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

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• Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.

  

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• I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.

  

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• The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

  

  J. Paul Getty
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• Diet cola is my absolute favorite drink in the world; I used to drink four cans a day. But to help me cut down, I've turned it into a treat. Now, instead of having dessert, I'll have a can of diet soda. Putting a limit on how often I can drink it has helped me appreciate it more.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?

  

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• Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody else that we will overcome.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
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• I don't wear sunscreen. I don't have a skincare program.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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• Mutations can arise anywhere in the genome, in gene DNA and noncoding DNA alike. But mutations to genes have bigger consequences: They can disable proteins and kill a creature.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Consequences
  • Genes
  • DNA

• I don't revisit anything unless there's a really good occasion, like BAM screened 'This Is My Life', with Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron before she died. It also screened 'Uncle Buck', so I took my niece. I don't have a TV, so I don't happen upon old movies like you would if you had cable.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Life
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• This left-wing kind of speech, the Robin Hood thing that Pablo had, of course he was a criminal and a mean person, but it wasn't a false. He wasn't false. I don't know what kind of president he would be, maybe a very bad one, but I am sure he would do things for poor people - popular things that wouldn't solve their lives but would help them.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Help
  • Popular

• I'm inspired every day by the great captains of industry and enlightened entrepreneurs like my great-great-grandfather and founder of Fiat, Giovanni Agnelli, who personally knew all his workers and gave so much to this country, or Adriano Olivetti, unique and innovative in every way.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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• It'd be nice to make lots of money but it's quite difficult, because every time I make lots of money I make a bigger piece that costs lots of money.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• Ideas are fatal to caste.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Ideas
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• Tantra accepts everything, lives everything. That's why tantra never could become a very accepted ideology. It always remained a fringe ideology.

  

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• At first glance, it seems to be a more reasonable approach regarding the restoration of cuts that were made in previous budgets.

  

  Alan Young
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• Night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.

  

  Ethel Smyth
  • Sleep
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• If you are trying to find something, it means you haven't got it. And if you find it simply by looking for it, that means it's false.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Time
  • Frightened

• If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

  

  Helen McCrory
  • Unhappy
  • Frightened
  • Bloody

• I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

  

  Paul Mooney
  • Passionate
  • Naive
  • I Do

• We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Almost
  • Frightened
  • Naive