Jonathan Zittrain Quotes
TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which the individual person doesn't have the burden of having to memorize everything he or she needs to know. The world helps us.
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The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.
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TV broadcasting is owned, in the sense that governments around the world have asserted power over the airwaves that permeate their territories, deciding who can use what bandwidth and why - and those with licenses then, with exceptions determined by regulators, decide what to broadcast.
