Astra Taylor Quotes
First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.
Quotes to Explore
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
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I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
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Setbacks in life are opportunities to perform at a new level.
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Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
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God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
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The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.
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First we need to rethink the terms and recognize that we've imported this language from the technocratic class, from Silicon Valley, that talks about openness and transparency.
