Wendy Kaminer Quotes

Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.

Wendy Kaminer

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• Right
• Interactivity

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• All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Work
  • Help
  • Health

• I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Positive
  • Depression

• I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Love
  • Relationship

• Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Part

• Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lose
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Sometimes

• The underdog winning is the romantic position.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Winning
  • Romantic
  • Underdog

• You need a big ego to be an artist.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Need
  • Ego

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

  Sallust
  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• I didn't even know for years that people ever even got paid for this, because they don't teach you that in school. They don't say Shakespeare got a check.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • School
  • Know

• I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Think
  • Me
  • Songs

• I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Israel
  • General
  • Prime Minister

• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Want
  • Opportunity

• The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • America
  • Today
  • Tradition

• I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Wish
  • Privacy
  • I Wish

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• After four years as Administrator of the SBA, I have let President Obama know that I will not be staying for a second term. I will stay on until my successor is confirmed to ensure a smooth and seamless transition.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Know
  • Years
  • Transition

• I grew up in a little bubble of Brooklyn in France! In Stains, I was learning to speak English; I was listening to Biggie Smalls and KRS-One, and so I basically lived the life by proxy. At the same time, I had the same problems and issues they were singing about right next to me, so it was easy to identify with it.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Want
  • Kid
  • Obscure

• My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Community
  • Right
  • Aim

• I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. It’s a term that does not relate to modern times. And it’s too confining. What I love about fashion is its accessibility and its democracy. Everyone wears it, and everyone relates to it.

  

  Miuccia Prada
  • Fashion
  • Democracy
  • Doubt

• Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

  

  Suheir Hammad
  • Life
  • Right
  • Collateral

• I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.

  

  George Harrison The Beatles

• Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.

  

  Wendy Kaminer
  • Democracy
  • Right
  • Interactivity