Evgeny Morozov Quotes
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Fred Segal was founded - by none other than Fred Segal - as a tiny jeans retailer in 1968. In the 1970s Segal, began selling space to employees, starting with his nephew Ron Herman.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.
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We love things that are convenient.
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The SFPD has had a lot of issues, and I think one of the issues that needs to be addressed is the racist text messages that have been passed back and forth between PD members, not only talking about the community, but also talking about colleagues that work in the same department as them.
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My mother always bought our birthday gifts.
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I'd feel weird on a show where it was a bunch of dudes that are my type. I like sticking out a little.
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In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.
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Marilyn Monroe was supposedly a size 16, which is probably why I love her style; it suits me better.
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We rarely have good alternatives to offer to prison - that's our default.
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Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
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Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.
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I kind of do all of this writing as a way of thinking and learning. I'm sure it's similar to being a journalist: You get to learn, and that's the greatest kind of job.
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Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
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My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.
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Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.
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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
