Eli Pariser Quotes
I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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You can't second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.
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How does one gain confidence? It's just the repetitive nature of telling you how good you are. How good of a putter and chipper you are. How you've got this. You can beat the best players in the world. You've got all the talent. You just have to believe in yourself.
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If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
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So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in it too.
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In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.
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We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.
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I think it's easier than ever to hear only what you want to hear. That doesn't make a good citizen.
