Evgeny Morozov Quotes
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
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Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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We have a tax code that allows groups to use their political operations within the tax code, under the guise of a charity, to use undisclosed millions of dollars to do political campaigns.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.
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I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.
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I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
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It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.
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It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.
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We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
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We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention.
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I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think.
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If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.
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Education is spreading hope. Millions are now learning to live with HIV/AIDS - instead of waiting to die from it.
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'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
