Meghan Daum Quotes
We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.
Quotes to Explore
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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One term that's used in this industry a lot is this notion of 'feeding the beast.' You've got all of these people whose livelihoods are dependent on it. There are enormous pressures to keep material going into it, and the pressures to feed it are not irrational. They're the basis of your business.
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I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.
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I sat at the computer at work, debugging. I was bored. It was afternoon. I was twenty-two. It was June. Along the front range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, thunderheads move in almost every afternoon between May and early July. They materialize, darken the day, spit a few drops, open the sky with lightning, then disappear like so many dreams.
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To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'
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We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.
