Astra Taylor Quotes

New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.

Astra Taylor

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• If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • True
  • Control
  • Organization

• Everybody needs money, but I'm a fighter. For what I make, I'm happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it's about honor.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Honor

• I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Live
  • Home
  • House

• My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Dinner

• I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Way
  • Me
  • Fire

• My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Work
  • Together
  • Amazing

• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Legislature

• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Earth
  • Habit
  • Common

• I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • People
  • Hair
  • Red

• I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Want
  • Years
  • Saying

• If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Like
  • Computer
  • Busy

• We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Know
  • City
  • Without

• When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • You
  • Heaven
  • Agriculture

• I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Always
  • Justice
  • Facts

• There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Stop
  • Problem

• Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Air
  • Old
  • Dress

• Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, 'If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.'

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • World
  • War
  • Guy

• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Right
  • Wait

• Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have. Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things, and is truly the international child of the future.

  

  Chester Middlebrook Pierce
  • Children
  • School
  • Age

• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

  

  Sallust
  • Brave
  • Necessity
  • Even

• There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Society
  • Changes
  • Consciousness

• I really love to drive. It’s really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I’ve gotten really good at driving and looking.

  

  Catherine Opie
  • Looks
  • Driving
  • Littles

• New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Looks
  • Company
  • Media