Tom Chatfield Quotes

Above all, the translation of books into digital formats means the destruction of boundaries. Bound, printed texts are discrete objects: immutable, individual, lendable, cut off from the world.

Tom Chatfield

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WorldDigitalBoundariesIndividual

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

Jim DeMint

GovernmentPeopleSocietyHelpMore

I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me - because he was an artist, and because he was a genius who had the time to be kind. I'd never met such an extraordinary artist before, and I haven't since - the world will be a greyer place without him.

Jennifer Connelly

TimeHeroBe KindMeWorldGenius

You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

Jennifer Saunders

DayWomanManPeopleWeekYou

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

Andie MacDowell

AgeLooking BackLookingGrowBack

I have a statue of Superman. It's actually a big one... It's a collectible statue of Superman, which the DC guys very kindly gave to me. So that's a little prized possession of mine.

Matt Ryan

MeSupermanLittleStatueBigMine

It was kind of like they were just giving us a toy to play with, to do whatever we wanted with.

Steve Carell

GivingPlayKindWhateverUsToy

By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.

Ron Lewis

FutureEnergyCountryBuildOilGas

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

Michael Moriarty

MindLegalDoingStoneIntellectual

I grew up with a sister and a younger brother in a house where every evening was spent performing a dance routine in front of our parents with my sister.

Disha Patani

DanceBrotherParentsSisterEvening

I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.

Anne Roiphe

LiveSpaceSocietyThinkFighting

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?

Annie Jacobsen

TimeFightWarBendNationOver

I've always had a day job and never been just acting.

Allison Tolman

DayJobActingNeverAlwaysBeen

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