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.

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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.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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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!
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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.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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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.
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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
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The test of good citizenship is loyalty to country.
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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.
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At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?
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Yes, our DNA is unique but so is a salamander’s.
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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).
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Oh, this isn't a talk show; it's more just filling time, really, 'til the infomercials start.
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I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.
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In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances.
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People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.
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I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life.
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All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
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The victory of Mr. Kostunica will be a reality.
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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.