Evgeny Morozov Quotes
If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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It's always nice to have more than just two hands if you're making cakes.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.
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Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.
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Of course, formulas always existed in journalism. When I was just getting into the business, 'Time' and 'Newsweek' knew if they could put Jesus' face on the cover that it would do really well on the newsstands. So every year, they would put Jesus' face on the newsstand. There was a formula there.
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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
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I doubt I'd ever do television to the extent that, say, Gordon Ramsay has.
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I think Robitussin is way underrated.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they've put the book down, thinking about the tale that's become a part of them.
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Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to picture the entire audience in their underwear. Phyllis was in that audience, you know." S: "Why, Alan, I had no idea your tastes ran that way." A: "Phyllis is a very nice lady. And I do not consider her so much aged as matured, like a fine wine. But I still think you owe me an archery lesson.
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If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.
