Astra Taylor Quotes
It wasn't that people wanted things for free and asked for advertising to fund it - it's that these companies wanted to amass an audience whose "eyeballs" they could sell, and they gave people things for free to do that. Free services and content has been foisted upon us because there wasn't the will power to explore other options.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I didn't have bands that I was playing with growing up, so I learned to try to adapt and play these songs that were guitar songs on the piano, and sing them.
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Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.
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I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
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Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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I think that addiction is a very, very important thing that has to be treated, but has to be treated as a health problem and not as a police problem.
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I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
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Language is the dress of thought.
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I have been taking every step toward the future every day through making many paintings and sculptures with my deep emotion hidden in my life.
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I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.
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When we're outside of the racetrack and in our team meetings, you need to communicate with your teammates and do what's best for the company in order to give the people that work there the best opportunity to succeed and maximize the potential of their job.
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I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.
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Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how.
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It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'
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It wasn't that people wanted things for free and asked for advertising to fund it - it's that these companies wanted to amass an audience whose "eyeballs" they could sell, and they gave people things for free to do that. Free services and content has been foisted upon us because there wasn't the will power to explore other options.
