Katie Salen Quotes
Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.
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To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international rules of the monetary game, with advanced and emerging economies alike adopting more mutually beneficial monetary policies.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I really believe the nexus of terrorism and nuclear weapons is the world's most ominous threat.
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It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.
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Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
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Music will save the world.
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I think both sides China and United States should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world.
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The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.
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As a general rule, whatever Europe is now doing, we should do the opposite - for our very survival in an increasingly scary world.
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I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.
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We live in a world where black people are targeted for death and destruction, and we should not be surprised when moments such as these occur - in fact, Charlottesville confirms the violence that black people endure every day.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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If he wins seven golds and ties what I did, then it would be like I was the first man on the moon and he became the second. If he wins more than seven, then he becomes the first man on Mars. We'd both be unique.
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My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.
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He was surprised when I ignored him. He is wealthy and arrogant and used to being listened to even when what he says is nonsense-as it often is.
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By far the most difficult skill I learned as a C.E.O. was the ability to manage my own psychology. Organizational design, process design, metrics, hiring and firing were all relatively straightforward skills to master compared with keeping my mind in check.
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Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.
