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Jaron Lanier Quotes

Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 3, 1960

Topics

Day Selling Privacy One Day Up Show

I used to think everything had to be perfect, but now I know perfection doesn't exist - life comes with bumps and grazes.

Life Perfection Think Perfect Know

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Alone World Looking Important Way

I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path.

Good Opportunity Path Decision View

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Always Everything Known Much How

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

Family Funny Good Time Man Good Man

In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'

Life Art Men Storm Reputation Think

Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.

Children Past Conflict Parent Look

I will never get married to the head of General Motors. I will never be the wife of a superstar. For those women, their lives are somebody else's... I will never be a 'Mrs. Blabidyblah!'

Stephanie Zimbalist

Women Wife Will Never Head Get

As a writer, I can't be a heroic sword fighter like General Dumas, but I can rescue someone who's been taken out of history by using my writing to bring them back.

History Writing Someone Back I Can

I feel like my style is very much androgynous. It's rock, chic, like casual wear, but then on the flip side to that, being that it's so androgynous, it'll either be skinny jeans and a leather jacket, or if I'm doing a red carpet or event, I'll completely flip that and be wearing a suit or a dress.

Style Red Dress Feel Doing Rock

I really love having lots of down time with my kids.

Love Time Down Kids Really Having

I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.

Music Mirror Vampire Heavy Metal

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