Neil Postman Quotes
Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.
Neil Postman
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I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.
Pam Grier
I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
Carine Roitfeld
If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
Adam Mansbach
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
Samantha Power
The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
Dan Shechtman
In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
Rachael Harris
Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
Taylor Sheridan
But the working I would always want to do.
Jackie Cooper
Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
Pankaj Mishra
I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
Maira Kalman
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
Carine Roitfeld
Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.
Birch Bayh
We've had a pretty good season, ... The boys did a good job, they put up good numbers and it was good enough to win.
Garry Moore
People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'
Zara Larsson
Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
Margaret Sanger
Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice. The result is that we are a people on the verge of amusing ourselves to death.
Neil Postman