Astra Taylor Quotes
One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's greatest ambition was to be sponsored by Chipotle or something equivalent to that. It was this weird mix of collaborative, utopian claims and this total acquiescence to commercial imperatives.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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Do the best job I can, not hurt our fellow beings on this planet, that's my religion.
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The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.
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...ingratitude is more common than you might think.
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You need to find the size of performance that's appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.
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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
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I don't eat the same meal or at the same time every single day. You get tired of that real quick. I just try to make sure whatever I'm eating is fresh and clean and good for my body. That's about it.
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The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.
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Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.
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I auditioned for Julliard because I wanted to live in New York, and I wanted to be on Broadway at the time. Julliard seemed like right way to get there.
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Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.
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We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.
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For three days this summer, people will come to Chicago to witness musical history in real time.
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One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's greatest ambition was to be sponsored by Chipotle or something equivalent to that. It was this weird mix of collaborative, utopian claims and this total acquiescence to commercial imperatives.
