Jaron Lanier Quotes
If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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Whenever you're in a relationship, you have that favorite song that reminds you of when you first got together or when you first kissed, and then every time you hear that song, it reminds you of that person.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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As a serial investor who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, I know that the business plans coming out of incubators tend to be vetted and more thoroughly validated. The incubator's input into your business plan will make you look far more polished and experienced - even if you have never run a business before.
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I am always loath to use the world 'evil,' but if 'evil' is the reverse of 'live,' Guy de Rothschild is thoroughly evil. He stands for the opposite of life.
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Wallace Beery was a tiresome actor.
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If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.
