Clay Shirky Quotes

Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.

Clay Shirky

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GoodActionBookSayingYouClub

One thing you have to realize is that cancer is not something you necessarily cure, but you want to just take care of yourself and extend your life as long as you can.

Joe Torre

LifeYourselfCareTake CareYou

Great musicians need great producers. The Beatles had George Martin.

John Gourley

GreatMusiciansNeedBeatlesHad

We think that fear must be played out in fight, with military intervention, or in flight, via isolationism - but we are not hunted game, and those are not the only options. There is also the possibility of acceptance, with its corollary of understanding and its ultimate manifestation in embracing.

Andrew Solomon

FearAcceptanceFightGameThink

When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

John Pomfret

GoodEyesMyselfBestBelieveThink

The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.

Sid Caesar

GoodStoryTroubleGood StoryDull

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Michel de Montaigne

FriendshipLoveGoodMarriageRather

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

Craig Ferguson

YourselfMeCrazyFreeYouKnow

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

ReadingFoolsInsultNationLimit

I kind of had a quarter-life crisis before I did 'Rent.' I had done Glinda in 'Wicked' for a while. I had worked for Cirque Du Soleil, and then I did 'Hair.' Then I had a real quiet time, not having work, and it was a time of not only self-discovery of me as a person, but also what I wanted as an artist and actor.

Annaleigh Ashford

WorkTimeMeHairArtistPerson

I am the greatest Angela Bassett fan. She is such a fine human being and so steady.

Suzanne de Passe

I AmHumanSheSteadyHuman Being

It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring things.

Pearl White

LifeGirlBornWildThingsDaring

I am trying to impress myself. I have yet to do it.

Shia LaBeouf

MyselfI AmTryingImpressAm

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