Evgeny Morozov Quotes
The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.
Quotes to Explore
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I grew up as a child living 'Red Dawn.' I was leaping out of spider holes, mowing down Russkies at the age of eight.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.
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If it's a big hit, fantastic. If it's not, then it's not. I don't worry about my work.
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I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
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When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted to be in charge of education for the entire area. He was always an inspirational teacher. He was my big personal supporter, always coming here for the Tony Awards. My mother, Carmel, was a homemaker.
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It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
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I had to experience how someone beside me suddenly falls over and is dead and the bullet has hit him squarely. I had to experience that quite directly. I wanted it. I'm therefore not a pacifist at all – or am I?
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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Christian Science has always appealed to the middle-classes and the upper middle classes. In part, this is because it requires a certain amount of education to study 'Science and Health' to the degree that Christian scientists do. It's not an easy book to read! It's 700 pages, and it's written in a nineteenth-century manner and diction.
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Nobody knows how fast he is until they play him. He has games when everything he touches turns to gold. (on Michael Owen)
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If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.
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A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.
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Don't despise the small beginnings because great things are just around the corner.
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Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work, though their relationships, and by how they choose to meet unavoidable suffering. Every life brings hardship and trial, and every life also offers deep possibilities for meaningful work and love... I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin.
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The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.
