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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People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.
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Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.
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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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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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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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The horrific damage of 9/11 did not end when those buildings came down.
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There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record it for the rest of our long journey. We take perfect snapshots, an album to despair over. We trim the edges and place them in plastic. We tuck the scrapbook away to take out in our ruined times.
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At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.
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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.
