Jonathan Zittrain Quotes
When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.
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I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.
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For me, I was really lucky to go to a city like Chicago where the team was struggling at the time, and I was able to go in and play right away.
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You don't overturn x-thousand years of patriarchy in a generation.
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I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.
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TV and film for me are not as exciting as the live stand-up show and getting the immediate reaction of the crowd. TV is a lot of hurry up and wait for your shot and less immediate reaction from people.
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When I worry about privacy, I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary.
