George Johnson Quotes
News is becoming more of a conversation. You can express opinions online in real time. You don't send a letter to the editor and wait a week.
George Johnson
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Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
T. Berry Brazelton
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Mark Zuckerberg needs no introduction these days, what with all the magazine covers and morning news shows. My mother knows who he is now, and my mother can hardly turn on a computer.
Kara Swisher
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
Hari Kondabolu
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In most cases, the news is not really news. But in some cases, discoveries are made and should be listened to.
Dan Shechtman
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An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'
Damian Lewis
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Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
Samuel Butler
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt
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I intend to live the first half of my life. I don't care about the rest.
Errol Flynn
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The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.
Gaetano Salvemini
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No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.
Norton Juster
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Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.
Fanny Kemble
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News is becoming more of a conversation. You can express opinions online in real time. You don't send a letter to the editor and wait a week.
George Johnson
