Jonathan Zittrain Quotes
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.Jonathan Zittrain
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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 -
Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
Laura Schlessinger -
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 -
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 -
People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
T-Pain -
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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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 -
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 -
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 -
I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.
Adam Lambert -
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 -
This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.
Laura Schlessinger
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I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.
Flume -
One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.
Faye Wattleton -
While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.
Edmund White -
I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.
Rachel Bilson -
Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.
Gavin Newsom -
I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.
Jodie Foster
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It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than to achieve themselves. Indirectly, by means of tact and a spotless name, a lady could accomplish much. But if she rushed into the fray herself she would be first censured, then despised, and finally ignored.
E. M. Forster -
The primary victory of Roy Moore in Alabama over the candidate for the U.S. Senate seat backed by President Trump suggests that that not even Trump himself can control the forces that he unleashed.
Charlie Sykes -
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Pythagoras -
Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.
Linda Lingle -
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.
Jonathan Zittrain