Ethan Zuckerman Quotes
When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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To me, in life, if there's, like, a rule, and I think it's ridiculous, then of course I'll circumvent that but also point out how ridiculous the rule is. Other than that, if I go to a concert, and my seat is Row G, Seat 12, I'm sitting in Row G, Seat 12. I don't care if I'm with five other friends, I'm supposed to be in Seat 12, that's my seat.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
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There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.
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I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
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I was quite happy with the way I went, I think.
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They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.
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What are you doing to magnify and grow your business? What are you doing for yourself? You have to self-motivate. I had to learn a million things on Google until I was able to meet people who I could partner with for help.
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What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.
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I want to do music, and I want that to be the highlight of everything that I do. I want that at the forefront.
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Trying to make a movie like 'Warcraft,' and trying to do it in a unique way... you get killed by a death of 1,000 cuts.
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Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
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When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.
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I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.
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When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories.
