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Print, in turning the vernaculars into mass media, or closed systems, created the uniform, centralizing forces of modern nationalism. (p. 226)

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• You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Look

• With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • You

• If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Smile

• We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • School
  • High
  • Doing

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • First
  • Breakfast

• White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • History
  • Popular

• Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Dark
  • Eye
  • Choice

• The fact is, funnily enough, that the people who seem to be most committed to causes also seem to be least invested in anyone actually talking to each other.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Enough
  • Talking

• It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Act
  • Authority
  • Vote

• When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Remember
  • Earth
  • Space

• I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Great
  • Words
  • Government

• With a huge storm, you need a lot of volume, but it can't become one loud noise. Dolby Atmos helped a lot because it gave us the separation of those elements.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • You
  • Storm
  • Elements

• We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Work
  • American
  • Single

• I've always loved improv. It's my thing.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Improv

• The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Step
  • Mathematics
  • Elegance

• America really started to die when the Federal Reserve was founded, and it really started to die in 1971 when the gold backing was taken away from the dollar, and this currency with Ben Bernanke just printing up or counterfeiting as much money as he wants and destroying the economy is really destroying the economy.

  

  Jeff Berwick
  • Up
  • Money
  • America

• One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that ‘violence begets violence.’ I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure-and in some cases I have-that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.

  

  Jeff Cooper
  • Heart
  • Violence

• By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

  

  Wes Nisker
  • Reality
  • Understanding
  • Challenges

• In animation, what's wonderful is that when you start to work with multiple nationalities, the common language becomes a visual language rather than a spoken language, which blends beautifully with the art form.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Work
  • Art

• We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Perfect
  • Mistake
  • Bigger

• Print, in turning the vernaculars into mass media, or closed systems, created the uniform, centralizing forces of modern nationalism. (p. 226)

  

  Marshall McLuhan