Ethan Zuckerman Quotes

People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.

Ethan Zuckerman

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Brothers
  • Favorites

• The feather in your cap is to get a man you love who'll marry you.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Man
  • Marry

• I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.

  

  Iman
  • Power
  • Know
  • Best

• I got to write most of everything I said.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Said
  • Everything
  • Got

• My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Become
  • Civilized

• If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Me

• The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Today
  • Hero
  • Tomorrow

• How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Quality
  • Answer
  • Improve

• You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Die
  • Craft

• I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Hate
  • Wish
  • Body

• I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Different
  • School
  • Training

• The reporter wrote with the hope that he would get a by-line in the Times, a testimony to his being alive on that day and all the tomorrows of microfilm.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Hope
  • Day
  • Alive

• I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Truth
  • Drive
  • Truth Is

• Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Important
  • Women
  • Me

• I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

  

  Karen O
  • Anymore
  • Self-destructive

• I really feel it's time to dissolve the current relationship of governor and lieutenant governor by running as a ticket.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Running

• I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now, as long as a woman chooses to wear the veil, because that's her belief and because of her own - that's a personal relationship with God, so she should be free to dress in whichever way she wants.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • God
  • Long
  • She

• No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • World
  • Today
  • Space

• I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Mother
  • City
  • Wife

• Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

  

  Michael Merzenich
  • Skills
  • Connections
  • Millions

• People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Remember
  • Promise
  • Obligation