Jamais Cascio Quotes
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.
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How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
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Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.
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Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.
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Perhaps the greatest lesson Huxley learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.
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As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too.
