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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There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.
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I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism. Venture capitalism is a good thing, comes in, gives that gap funding to help these companies get off and get started creating jobs, and work. But Mitt Romney and Bain Capital were involved with what I call vulture capitalism. And they walked into Gaffney and took over that photo album company for no other reason than to basically pick the bones clean. And those people lost their jobs.
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The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.
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I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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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?
