Clive Thompson Quotes

Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.

Clive Thompson

Recitation: by Male by Female

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ExperiencePeopleLookingSmall

Billy Crystal, Steve Martin do wonderful things.

Jerry Lewis

CrystalWonderfulThingsSteveBilly

I'm a sweats and UGGs girl. Very casual.

Jennifer Aniston

GirlCasualVerySweats

As long as I'm here living and breathing, I'm going to be moving.

Andrew Whitworth

MovingLongLivingBreathingGoing

Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is much more complicated than a Manhattan bond trader's.

John McWhorter

PeopleBondLanguageComplicated

L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.

Matt Walsh

BusinessPeopleKnowChicagoSayUp

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.

Ann Hood

StarsEyesDayCityWritingWorld

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.

Tom Freston

WorkHard WorkMoneySchoolNever

What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.

Martin Seligman

HappinessJusticeMeaningWantJust

I'm the one who's always kissing all the boys and stuff.

Molly Sims

AlwaysStuffKissing

It's great if you can find what you love to do. Finding it is one thing, but then to be able to practise that and be preoccupied with that is another.

Jonathan Ive

LoveGreatFindingYouFindAble

My father started me singing in church.

DeForest Kelley

FatherMeSingingChurchStarted

To me, you have to declare yourself a Chicano in order to be a Chicano. That makes a Chicano a Mexican-American with a defiant political attitude that centers on his or her right to self-definition. I'm a Chicano because I say I am.

Cheech Marin

AttitudeYourselfI AmMePolitical

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