Jamais Cascio Quotes

The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.

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• We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Die
  • Always

• I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • You
  • Summer

• I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Best
  • Artist
  • End

• As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Just

• I think it's cool people love to hate me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • People
  • Hate
  • Cool

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • School
  • Small
  • Law

• My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Thought

• What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Love
  • Characters
  • Films

• For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Me
  • Single

• Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • History
  • Age
  • Disasters

• I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

  

  Raf Simons
  • She
  • Way
  • Fashion

• The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Attention
  • First
  • Presidential

• I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Homosexual
  • Microphone
  • Podium

• The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.

  

  Young Thug
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Young

• Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Death
  • Law

• The body is forever teaching us lessons. There are all sorts of things that we can't do, shouldn't do, had better not do very often or do for too long as we get older. The body makes its presence known.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Long
  • Forever
  • Body

• How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

  

  John Ruskin
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

  

  Irwin Corey
  • Long
  • Way
  • Smile

• I was thinking about Afghanistan's future, Afghanistan's next generation, what we have next. These children who learn how to kill people, how to do jihad, how to behead, how to fire, this would be Afghanistan.

  

  Najibullah Quraishi
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• See the encounters of Jesus life as windows into possibilities for yours. Accept the invitation to go or strive to go through the narrow door. Choose between life and fear, for the unengaged life is truly not worth living, and has no possibility of salvation or abundance.

  

  Katharine Jefferts Schori
  • Jesus
  • Accepting
  • Possibility

• 'I don’t hold with prophets,' said Alvin. 'Near as I can tell, they end up just as dead as the next man.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up

• The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Strong