Peter Singer Quotes

Google has withdrawn from China, arguing that it is no longer willing to design its search engine to block information that the Chinese government does not wish its citizens to have. In liberal democracies around the world, this decision has generally been greeted with enthusiasm.

Peter Singer

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There is a beauty and a special quality in being what I am. I know it, and I've learned how to use it.

Mauro Ranallo

BeautyQualityI AmKnowSpecialAm

It obviously matters who gets to be president. And it's perfectly valid for us media types to advocate for the candidate we think is more qualified, based on our reporting. But the hype has gotten so out of control, it's become bigger than the presidency itself.

Matt Taibbi

ControlThinkMediaBecomeMatters

We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or just, you know, things that take us away from the big questions that we have, those are the things that I think urge us to think about what a poem can offer.

Tracy K. Smith

PoetryThinkLanguageQuestionsYou

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

Roz Chast

LoveCartoonJustFormReally

When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.

Joy Harjo

SoulYourselfPoetryCloudsThink

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

Chris Isaak

SongGuitarPlayKindNeverSee

I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore.

Art Modell

YearsClevelandEnjoyedBaltimore

Can you believe approximately 17 percent of American children ages 2 to 19 years are obese? How about this fact: approximately 60 percent of overweight children ages 5 to 10 already have at least one risk factor for heart disease? We are all to blame for this - parents, schools, kids - all of us.

Alison Sweeney

HeartChildrenParentsBlameBelieve

A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act, in a way, on their behalf.

Susan Minot

WantUnderstandWayResponsibleAct

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

Sean Durkin

PeopleKnowLeaveLeftCultCults

For me, the very last great strip is 'Peanuts.' After 'Peanuts,' there are a very few strips that I enjoyed for different reasons, but I don't think they were great. I don't think anything's come along since Charles Schulz - and I mean since 1950 - that I think rises above the professional or the eccentric into that realm of greatness.

Seth

GreatGreatnessMeThinkMeanAbove

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Thomas Steinbeck

AmericanWriteGreatestGoingNovel

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