Danah Boyd Quotes
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.
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Keeping your space clean is as much a part of the end result as the dish being tasty.
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A number of organizations are already using Web GIS to create shared information and facilitate collaboration, and it is literally changing the way organizations operate.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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I like to stay home with my family.
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The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.
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I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'
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I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.
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A country without borders is not a country.
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We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.
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We also have a lot of people who are not Dutch, and who are in Holland as a guest, whether they are asylum seekers or others. I believe if you commit a crime you overstay your welcome, if we could extradite you.
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When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
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I've been a fan of Showtime for a long, long time, and I've been a fan of the shows that it's had on.
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We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.
