Jamais Cascio Quotes
Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I'm definitely a Tory. My dad was a Conservative councillor, and I spent years as a child knocking on doors with him. I'm a Tory because I'm passionate about business and enterprise. But I am also a compassionate Conservative. There should always be a net through which no one should fall.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
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I can go anywhere. In fact, for 'Three Billboards,' I was just getting on trains around America. I wrote everywhere from New York to New Mexico. I always write with pencil and paper.
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My ultimate goal is to become a saint.
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Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
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I think that what happened is that we grew up with the Holocaust within us. It turned us into harsh, emotionally incapable people who have become blind to what they are doing to other people. A lot of times, Holocaust abuse justifies terrible things done to the Palestinians. And you have to realize that what is going on is terrible, and that we are responsible, and we have to take responsibility - even if we are not completely responsible.
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There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
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Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.
