Evgeny Morozov Quotes
Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?
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I'm cranky.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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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 just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.
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My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.
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We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
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You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.
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When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.
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One third of the economy goes through 'QuickBooks' in terms of businesses invoicing other businesses. Each invoice contains a connection between vendors, suppliers, and customers, and also the price of that connection. Representing the payment graph is huge opportunity and something no other company can do.
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If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.
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Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
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Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'
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I'm a relatively ugly character who's done pretty damn well in film.
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Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.
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If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.
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I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank goodness he likes his training or else he wouldn't settle here.
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The will of God prevails.
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Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it?
