Amy Webb Quotes
We’ve made a devil’s pact, swapping convenience and efficiency for an ever-increasing tyranny of information and choice.
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Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
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Think about finding out when you're 13 that your dad is not your dad. It's like, okay, take it on the chin and keep going. No choice, really.
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When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at school. But it's not an especially insured career choice, so I was like, 'It's a hobby. Whatever.'
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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That's what is incredible about human beings, is the choice to keep going.
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
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If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
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'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
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I will offer a choice, not an echo.
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My career is not well thought out. Every choice has been instinctive and, quite literally, impulsive in many ways.
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Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.
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Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
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Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.
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My choice is what I choose to be.
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
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We don't need to set this up as we either take a bunch of refugees who will be infiltrated with terrorists, I guarantee you. For them not to be would be terrorist malpractice. And we need to - to choose the right choice, not these false choices.
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It's not work, it is more of a passion. It is so much fun and it is really makes you feel great at the end of the day. You feel like you are really after doing something good and you are after accomplishing something. Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.
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As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.
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We’ve made a devil’s pact, swapping convenience and efficiency for an ever-increasing tyranny of information and choice.
