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— J. Maarten Troost, Getting Stoned with Savages. 1-2. ¶“Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms is to be strenuously avoided. How do you expect to get ahead? people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn’t want to get ahead, he simply wants to get away.”
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— Lord Northcliffe, http://twitter.com/gruber ¶“News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.”
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— Buckminster Fuller, Somewhere ¶“Fire is the sun unwinding itself from the wood.”
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— Clay Shirky, Gin, Television, and Cognitive Surplus ¶“Here’s something four-year-olds know: media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for.”
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— John Patrick Shanley, Creative Screenwriting: Doubt Q&A ¶“Doubt is space in me for you… certainty is a dead end.”
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— Alfred Korzybski, Anecdote about Korzybski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ¶“…People don’t just eat food, but also words, and that the taste of the former is often outdone by the taste of the latter.”
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— Brenda Brathwaite, Ivory Tower Defense ¶“Education is not just about the industry. It is also about the chance to study, to experiment, to push, to wonder ‘what if,’ and we need more of that.”
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— Mo Willems, Getting Adults To Draw ¶“One of the interesting things about cartooning and doodling and drawing is that people stop when they decide they’re not good at it. Nobody stops playing basketball when they realize they’re not going to become a professional. The same thing should apply to cartooning.”
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— Billy Wilder, Mystery Man on Film: 2 + 2 = ¶“You always start with too many ideas.”
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— Clint Hocking, The Next Generation Player ¶“Skinnerian reward scheduling, reward scheduling designed to manipulate and bring about change in human behaviour for profit or addiction is not just wrong, it is fucking evil.”
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— Allison Weiss, http://allisonweiss.tumblr.com/post/102405427/90-people-get-the-swine-flu-and-everybody-wants-to-wear ¶“90 people get the swine flu and everyone wants to wear a mask. A million people have AIDS and no one wants to wear a condom.”
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— Gym Class Heroes, New Friend Request ¶“On a scale of 1 to awesome I’m the shit.”
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— W.B. Yeats?, Did Yeats really say "Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire"? | Ask Metafilter ¶“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire”
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— Chris Morris, The Creators of Nathan Barley, 01.02.08 ¶“Making it was the main obstacle. You can’t drive a car made out of drawings.”
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— The LA Times in 1886, Calculated Risk: Robert Shiller at Seattle Pacific University ¶“We Californians have learned something. And that is that home prices can’t just go up forever—they have to be supported by something. Never again will Californians make this mistake.”
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— Kanye West, kanYe West : Blog : ¶“I JUST WANNA BE A DOPER PERSON WHICH STARTS WITH ME NOT ALWAYS TELLING PEOPLE HOW DOPE I THINK I AM. I NEED TO JUST GET PAST MYSELF. DROP THE BRAVADO AND JUST MAKE DOPE PRODUCT. EVERYTHING IS NOT THAT SERIOUS. AS LONG AS PEOPLE THINK I ACT LIKE A BITCH THIS TYPE OF SHIT WILL HAPPEN TO ME. I GOT A LONG ROAD AHEAD OF ME TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE I’M NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE BUT I’M UP FOR THE CHALLENGE.”