Danah Boyd Quotes
Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?
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Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
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I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
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I am so inspired by new media.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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So far as living instruments of labour are concerned, for instance horses, their reproduction is timed by nature itself. Their average lifetime as instruments of labour is determined by the laws of nature. As soon as this term has expired they must be replaced by new ones. A horse cannot be replaced piecemeal; it must be replaced by another horse.
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You emphasize morality. But the ultimate basis of morality is survival. What promotes survival is good; what induces mortifaction is bad.
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In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercize their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
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I remember, the first few years here, I didn't like London much: too big, too crowded, the physical difficulty of getting around.
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I just think the best way for me to be greedy is long-term greedy.
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Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.
