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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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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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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Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.
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If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.
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You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.
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You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.
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Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
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I'm thankful for the talent in which God gave me and I'm thankful for the environment that he placed me.
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We’ve made a devil’s pact, swapping convenience and efficiency for an ever-increasing tyranny of information and choice.
