Jaron Lanier Quotes

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

Jaron Lanier

Recitation: by Male by Female

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TechnologyLostContactOwnOriginal

The body of work I create combines traditional storylines and postmodern narrative strategies to approach themes such as belonging, identity politics and conflict, as well as the push towards - and resistance against - modernization.

Aman Mojadidi

WorkPoliticsIdentityConflictPush

No single choice about how to organize work and family life is right or possible - for every family. And every choice has tradeoffs.

Stephanie Coontz

LifeWorkFamilyChoicePossible

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

Tracey Ullman

LifeGreatMoneyManPressureGrow

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I'm eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

Michelle Obama

HealthMyselfWomanI AmFlyEating

The tactical issue is ISIS or ISIL in the greater Levant area, which is essentially Syria, and Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, et cetera. But the wider problem is not just trans-regional in that part of the world, but it's also global. I mean, 40 to 50 countries supplying fighters to this current fight in the Middle East? Come on.

Michael T. Flynn

FightWorldProblemMeanMiddle

I'm not sure if guys are supposed to read Vanity Fair. I feel very metrosexual with it but am not sure it's in my comfort zone.

Mohsin Hamid

Comfort ZoneFeelVanityComfort

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

Jay Leno

GodHollywoodApologyDestroyHe

Comedy is similar to hockey... in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve whatever the intention is, be it the joke or the story or the scene or the moment or the kiss, even if it's not my joke or moment.

Johnny Galecki

MomentKissHockeyStoryCreditYou

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

Colm Meaney

GoodWritingComedyEnjoyHardMake

I was driving by an auto auction one day, and they were auctioning off a beautiful Hispano-Suiza. I started bidding even though I hadn't even signed up with the officials. The last bid was $50,000, and it was mine. And I thought, 'My God, what have I done? I've never spent more than $500 in my life.' That was the first one.

Clive Cussler

LifeGodBeautifulDayThoughtDone

The best bands kept making records and had this evolution, where by the end, by their commercial phase or sellout phase, the records are from outer space.

Ariel Rechtshaid

BestSpaceEndEvolutionOuter Space

Mentally, my key is just focusing on the little things I need to do in a race, whether that's tempo, turn entry, start speed, things like that. I'm not thinking about that much before or during a race. I just trust in my ability and all the hard work I put in and let the race come to me.

Shani Davis

WorkHard WorkTrustLittle Things

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