Jonathan Zittrain Quotes
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
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The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
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In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.
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'And he respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anyone who can spell Tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.'
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I think I first got into acting through church. I would go to these church retreats, and they would tell us to make a skit or make a video and present it to the rest of the group. And I started doing that. And I fell in love with it.
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All sorts of factors contribute to what Facebook or Twitter present in a feed, or what Google or Bing show us in search results. Our expectation is that those intermediaries will provide open conduits to others' content and that the variables in their processes just help yield the information we find most relevant.
