Astra Taylor Quotes

Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we've already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath.

Astra Taylor

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• Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • More

• I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Child

• For quite a while, it didn't feel right. How could I feel joy when I lost the love of my life? I'm learning that those two things can co-exist. It will never be the same joy, but it doesn't mean there won't be joy.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Joy

• It's OK when something doesn't work. It gives you another data point when things do work.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Work

• I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • War

• At 25, my idea of success may have been more vain, like, "I'll be good the day that there's $20 million in my account and I have this particular house and the wife and 2.5 kids." But at 40 - and I know it's kind of silly telling you guys this - but as long as my Metacritic rating stays above 80, that's all I care about.

  

  Questlove
  • Good
  • Long
  • May

• You don’t have to beg God; you just have to act upon His Word.

  

  F. F. Bosworth
  • God

• Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Help
  • Think
  • Feeling

• When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Casanova, he had no money and no power, and according to some, he even was cute. But he had talent to live, and some literature talent. I love how he invented himself.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Live
  • Money
  • Power

• You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Up
  • Men
  • Trying

• If a Snickers chocolate bar has 50% sugar, wouldn't it be safe to eat the other half?

  

  Wakas Mir
  • Chocolate
  • Half
  • Bars

• When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Believe
  • Confidence

• We will never be a pawn in someone else's game. We will always be Afghanistan

  

  Ahmad Shah Massoud
  • Game
  • Afghanistan
  • Pawn

• All the while he's been moving towards her, both stoat to rabbit and moth to flame. And she's staring at him, flame-bright and rabbit-scared, too brave to look away.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Moving
  • Flame
  • Rabbit

• By packaging a full album into a bundle of music with ringtones, videos and other combinations and variations, we found products that consumers demonstrably valued and were willing to purchase at premium prices. And guess what? We've sold tons of them.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • Products
  • Consumers

• History is a bath of blood.

  

  William James
  • History
  • Baths

• Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Sometimes
  • Democracy
  • Brother

• Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we've already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Citizens
  • Consumers
  • Predictable