Jaron Lanier Quotes

I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

Jaron Lanier

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• Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Think
  • Act
  • Tyranny

• If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

  

  Adam Carolla
  • She
  • Think
  • Funny

• The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Way
  • Like
  • Idea

• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Literature
  • First
  • German

• When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Different
  • Think
  • Know

• Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Risk
  • Security
  • Budget

• Such a gift might be easily taken back again.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Taken
  • Gift
  • Back

• I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Run

• With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • War
  • China
  • Global

• Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren't careers supposed to culminate in a role like that? And because I'm a big fat geek, as long as there's stuff I'm excited about - and isn't that really the definition of geek? - there'll always be roles I'd love to play.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Play
  • Like
  • Careers

• Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Story
  • Cold
  • Look

• In my life I do a lot of things but I never forget my training.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Life
  • Training
  • My Life

• A lot of times what happens is, not even just with child actors, but people in general, is they get so caught up in the now. The hot song, the hot TV show, the hot movie. You're not saying 'OK, this is cool, but where am I trying to be 20 years from now?' That's always been in the forefront of my mind.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• The social revolution has been slow in reaching our country. We have been exempt, not because we had solved the problems, but because we had not yet confronted them.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Country
  • Revolution

• So, naturalists observe, a fleaHas smaller fleas that on him prey;And these have smaller still to bite 'em,And so proceed ad infinitum.Thus every poet in his kindIs bit by him that comes behind.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers

• O, Woman! in our hours of ease,Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,And variable as the shadeBy the light quivering aspen made;When pain and anguish wring the brow,A ministering angel thou!

  

  Walter Scott
  • Light
  • Pain
  • Angel

• I don't let gossip about my alleged affairs with Abhishek (Bachchan) or Govinda bother me anymore. People have even married me off to Karan Johar! The rumours about Govinda did make me furious. I felt sorry for Sunitaji. As far as Abhishek goes, I’m not dating him. I have no time for dates.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Time
  • Sorry

• We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • History
  • Attention
  • Politics

• I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

  

  Simon Baker
  • Successful

• When one goes on to find "better", or "higher", or "truer", or "more enduring", or "more widely agreed upon" forms of beauty, what happens to our regard for the less good, less high, less true, less universal instances? Simone Weil says, "He who has gone farther, to the very beauty of the world itself, does not love them any less but much more deeply than before".

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Love
  • Father
  • Beauty

• One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

  

  Abba Eban
  • World
  • Prove
  • Dialogue

• I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.

  

  Jaron Lanier