Jaron Lanier Quotes
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
Quotes to Explore
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
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I want to be known as someone who develops individuals, not just companies.
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I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.
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I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm always on the lookout for teaching poems - poems that inspire me and my students to write poems in response.
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Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, 'I want to be an artist' - is a good thing.
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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
