Ethan Zuckerman Quotes
You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.
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I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
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Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely in all respects.
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I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
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Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
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The bands that have been the most important to me, and the records that have been the most important to me as a fan, have been records that surprised me for one reason or another.
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My objection to Liberalism is this—that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind—namely, politics—of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
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You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.
