Astra Taylor Quotes
There's this divergence out there between the very small and the very large with the middle disappearing. There is something paradoxical going on where there is this access and we can seek out things on the fringes, but that doesn't describe the overall reality, because the big are bigger than ever.Astra Taylor
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
Kamala Harris -
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
Caity Lotz -
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
Youssou N'Dour -
Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
Ted Deutch -
Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
Mae West -
I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
Gail Simmons
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
Lara Pulver -
Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
Yair Lapid -
I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
Bainbridge Colby -
I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
Aaron Koblin -
At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.
Dan Simmons -
Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).
Antonio Gramsci -
Oh, this isn't a talk show; it's more just filling time, really, 'til the infomercials start.
Craig Ferguson -
I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.
Ben Schnetzer -
In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.
Carolina Herrera -
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.
Paul Theroux
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I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.
Jack Gleeson -
I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.
Andrew Solomon -
Traditional methods for falling asleep work. Non-taxing, repetitive mental tasks have a lulling effect, and I built those patterns into 'Sleep'.
Max Richter -
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
Jalal Talabani -
I would love to be a guest on a talk show or a panel that shows women who have been on reality shows who've had success, to prove to audiences that you don't have to be a fool to become successful.
NeNe Leakes -
There's this divergence out there between the very small and the very large with the middle disappearing. There is something paradoxical going on where there is this access and we can seek out things on the fringes, but that doesn't describe the overall reality, because the big are bigger than ever.
Astra Taylor