Alvin Toffler Quotes
If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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Asian horror is really setting a trend. The Pang brothers are from Hong Kong, so they just bring a whole different sensibility to a horror movie. In Hong Kong, they're actually doing stuff that's very artistic and pushing boundaries.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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Salman will always be that special person in my life because he was able to change my career. I will never ever forget what he has done for me. On the personal front, too, he has advised me as a friend and family, something I couldn't have even asked for.
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
