Astra Taylor Quotes
One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
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I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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Of course, I consider myself a feminist, but I wouldn't say I'm a feminist genius or anything.
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink - that's one less connection you could have made.
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If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.
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You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.
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If you want to get technical about it, Rocky couldn't carry my jockstrap.
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As a wit, if not first, in the very first line.
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One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.
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Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
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Growing up, I think I was arrested 20-odd times by the Boston police. The good news is that I've been able to use those experiences in a lot of my roles, and that has been a blessing.
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The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
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There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
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Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.
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I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.
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People think I hate the Royal Family, but that's not true.
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The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control
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One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is.
