Michael Schudson Quotes

Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.

Michael Schudson

• Honest
• Direct
• Products
• Dishonesty
• Announcers

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• There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.

  

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• Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.

  

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• Sometimes you have to resist working on your strengths in favour of your weaknesses. The decathlon requires a wide range of skills.

  

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• It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.

  

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• To be honest, I've been a passionate advocate for the value of tech to help us connect to people in real and emotional ways - and stick up for myself when people say, 'Sklar! Stop tweeting!'

  

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• The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

  

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• They stood and listened, arms around each other for comfort, as the sound washed over them. It reverberated in the marrow of their bones, sung high and sweet, heartbreakingly mournful, quick as a jig, slow as the saddest air. Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.

  

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• When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.

  

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• Spend your energy on things that make a difference.

  

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• Every country is under an imperative to deal with terrorism, including terrorism masquerading as freedom fighting,

  

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• There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

  

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• I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.

  

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• I got problems, can't sleep at night. Cause your girl wanna come around and freak all night.

  

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• As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

  

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• Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

  

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• Electronic communication makes possible what has previously been excluded: namely, active, simultaneous and reciprocal contact between individuals across all frontiers constituted by countries, religions and continents.

  

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• Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

  

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• Even if, as is generally the case, everything that the ad says about the product is scrupulously honest, or at any rate scrupulously avoids outright dishonesty, the implication of the direct address of most commercials - that the announcer speaks with the viewer's welfare at heart - is fraudulent.

  

  Michael Schudson
  • Honest
  • Direct
  • Products