Alvin Toffler Quotes

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

Alvin Toffler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 4, 1928 - June 27, 2016

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I chose English-speaking and English-thinking people to take decisions for Hindi programmes. It was a mistake.

Subhash Chandra

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Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

Soledad O'Brien

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As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.

Tracy Chevalier

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Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

Rita Mae Brown

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I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days. Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think of Irish music.

Roisin Murphy

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I'm not on Twitter, but I am on Instagram and follow Lena Dunham and Usher.

Michelle Dockery

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I lost my election because of my campaign, not because of what anyone else did.

Mitt Romney

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A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.

Louis Auchincloss

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After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

Liz Phair

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I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

Diahann Carroll

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Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

David Suzuki

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It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.

Christy Turlington

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