Jonathan Zittrain Quotes
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
Cameron Crowe
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
Dana Boente
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
Laura Schlessinger
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
Tab Hunter
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There's no problem with fans and bands. There's a problem with the economics of the outside disruption of the industry.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
T-Pain
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Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry.
Barry Diller
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
Kate Winslet
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
Eddie Campbell
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
Faith Evans
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
Jackson Katz
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The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public sees where his decisions lead - higher inflation, higher interest rates, higher taxes, sluggish growth, and a jobless recovery.
Karl Rove
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
Irving Thalberg
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I don't know anything about music.
Captain Beefheart
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I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
Adam Lambert
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
Walt Mossberg
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
Damien Chazelle
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You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
Brené Brown
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Obviously, a skirt does present certain problems that I had to be aware of. But when it came to the shoot and we were rolling, I didn't really pay it any attention. It wasn't too bad.
Chiaki Kuriyama
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Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of four or five million. That means it was a best seller for years. People were thoughtful then. Hope is one thing. But you need to have hope with thought.
Studs Terkel
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Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.
Jody Williams
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Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.
Jonathan Zittrain