Trevor Paglen Quotes

The Internet was supposed to be the greatest tool of global communications and means of sharing knowledge in human history. And it is. But it has also become the most effective instrument of mass surveillance and potentially one of the greatest instruments of totalitarianism in the history of the world.

Trevor Paglen

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The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.

Johan Huizinga

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There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Anatole Broyard

ArtPeopleSeeingBadPlayMore

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

Andy Summers

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One of the interesting things about the Dell-EMC combination is that we don't have a lot of overlap.

Michael Dell

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It's no accident that Julia Child appeared on public television - or educational television, as it used to be called. On a commercial network, a program that actually inspired viewers to get off the couch and spend an hour cooking a meal would be a commercial disaster, for it would mean they were turning off the television to do something else.

Michael Pollan

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The history of cooking is my passion, and cooking is my passion.

Jose Andres

PassionHistoryCooking

When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.

David Wroblewski

WorkYouConversationSoftwareBig

Good or bad people can be democratically elected, but it is always easy to fight for human rights under this system.

Asma Jahangir

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Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Wilson Mizner

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The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

Susan Straight

FamilyGoodFriendBestPeopleMe

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

Sean O'Casey

GreatReligionThinkPossibleReason

As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

Ricky Williams

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