Jaron Lanier Quotes
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
Patrice Motsepe -
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
Camille Paglia -
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
Karen Armstrong -
I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
Yvonne Strahovski -
I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
Ted Sarandos -
When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.
Taylor Negron
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
T. D. Jakes -
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
A. S. Byatt -
Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
Oriana Fallaci -
When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
Walter O'Brien -
I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
Francesca Annis -
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
A. S. Byatt -
Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
Victor Ponta -
Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
Laura Dern -
The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
Warren Christopher -
There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
Hannah Kent
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
Ralph Bakshi -
One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Fargo.'
Cameron Monaghan -
I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.
Kristen Stewart -
Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.
Alicia Keys -
People are never satisfied. They crave too much then complain too much.
Arnold Arre -
After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
Jaron Lanier