Evgeny Morozov Quotes
I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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I always wanted to be an ambassador.
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
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I've always imagined myself doing well, whatever I did.
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On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.
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The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.
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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
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'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.
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I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.
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PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux.
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Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry.
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We want our president to be a president and not threaten to shut down the government over a wall. To change the oppression that happens in this country, it has no place in the world, let alone America.
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Our world is increasingly complex, often chaotic, and always fast-flowing. This makes forecasting something between tremendously difficult and actually impossible, with a strong shift toward the latter as timescales get longer.
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The problem remains that the market is grossly distorted by Canadian unfair trade practices.
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I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?'
