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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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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I know how to sell books.
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The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.
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Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
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The difference between a good educator and a great educator is that the former figures out how to work within the constraints of traditional policies and accepted assumptions, whereas the latter figures out how to change whatever gets in the way of doing right by kids. 'But we've always...', 'But the parents will never...', 'But we can't be the only school in the area to...' - all such protestations are unpersuasive to great educators. If research and common sense argue for doing things differently, then the question isn't whether to change course but how to make it happen.
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We’ve made a devil’s pact, swapping convenience and efficiency for an ever-increasing tyranny of information and choice.
