Jamais Cascio Quotes
Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlisted Army is a constituency of the dispossessed.
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I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.
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Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.
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I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.
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Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.
