Esther Dyson Quotes

The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

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• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• I don't care if I never see Texas again.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Never
  • Care
  • Texas

• There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Women
  • Daughter
  • Story

• I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Fun
  • Myself

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Racism

• I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Real
  • Fun
  • Player

• There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Long
  • Man
  • Moments

• When I was around nine, my parents took me to my first live event, which was a WWE show with Ultimate Warrior. From then on, I loved it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Loved

• Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge

• And Israel is not only our ally; it is a beacon of what democracy can and should mean… If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Democracy

• I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in that cast was Megan Mullally and Kevin Anderson.

  

  Alan Ruck

• While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Struggle

• Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Writing

• I'm not cynical. I cry at 'ET.' And 'Kung Fu Panda!'

  

  Pilou Asbaek

• It's a miracle that any job comes together.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Job
  • Together
  • Miracle

• Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor.

  

  Coleman Randolph Hawkins
  • People

• Fear just crushes creativity, and if I let fear into the studio and into the songwriting, I was going to let it kill the artist inside of me.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Fear
  • Creativity

• England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • City

• Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.

  

  Brian J. White
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I do not want to be young again.

  

  Paul Theroux

• When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Work
  • See
  • Audiences

• The Net is not a single home. Rather, it's an environment where thousands of small homes and communities can form and define and design themselves.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Home
  • Environment
  • Design