Astra Taylor Quotes
Not to be to be a vulgar materialist or be too reductive, but all of that was completely absent from the conversation. Instead we were told it was a "revolutionary" moment, where these new tools would inevitably displace the old media dinosaur and that things would be democratized and wasn't it great we could all collaborate on these platforms.
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There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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HB2 discriminates against fellow citizens because of who they are. This law directly challenges the legitimacy of the identity of transgender persons and then compels them to deny it every time they use a public restroom.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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I should be concentrating on writing pages.
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It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon or remembering your first love or the birth of your child. You have to be there to really know what it's like.
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If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.
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After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.
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Your sex have such a surprising animosity against one another when you do differ.
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And right after we sex, I don't leave I just hold herI don't leave, I just hold her
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It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were to make the lives of all people more fulfilling and productive, and too much toward the important, but not all-important, area of curing mental illness.
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While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.
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Not to be to be a vulgar materialist or be too reductive, but all of that was completely absent from the conversation. Instead we were told it was a "revolutionary" moment, where these new tools would inevitably displace the old media dinosaur and that things would be democratized and wasn't it great we could all collaborate on these platforms.
