Clay Shirky Quotes

There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.

Clay Shirky

Recitation: by Male by Female

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TogetherEnvironmentalProblemYou

Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.

Jenny Zhang

LoveSuccessMotherDreamsFreedom

I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?'

Maxine Waters

GrandchildrenMeanAskShadeDoes

Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

John Maeda

PeopleResearchResultsNeedMeans

I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.

John Hurt

DoingSeeingWithoutAccustomed

I still don't really think about acting that much. I just do it.

Anna Paquin

ThinkActingJust Do ItJustStill

It's been a thrilling journey - I have had to really learn that an orchestra is an entity - it's a creature. I have been calling it the dragon and the conductor is the dragon tamer. And you just have to... ride and don't let go and you will be fine.

Tori Amos

JourneyRideLearnYouGoWill

Today, they're just up there for the money, just packaged and be gone.

Ronnie Spector

TodayMoneyUpGoneJustPackaged

It was actually an Israeli cartoonist, Nurit Karlin, who made me think that I could draw for 'The New Yorker.' I saw her work published in the magazine in the early 1970s - she was the only woman working as a cartoonist at 'The New Yorker' at the time.

Liza Donnelly

WorkTimeWomanMeThinkEarly

Our enemy, the devil, wants to control us, and his target is our will. The main way he tries to influence our will is through lying to us.

Joyce Meyer

InfluenceControlDevilTargetEnemy

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Diogenes

MotherTyrantsMob

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

Brian Harris

FailureSocialismWealthProductOwn

It's interesting to talk to young comedians. I love it because it makes me go, 'Oh, that's how I can be funny.'

Bob Saget

FunnyLoveMeInterestingI CanGo

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