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Paul Virilio Quotes

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: french
Birth: January 4, 1932 - September 10, 2018

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Light World Speed Globalization Does

As money, Bitcoin achieves two objectives; it's both a unit of transaction as well as being a store of value. The U.S. dollar, for example, is a unit of transaction, but it is not a store of value.

Money Value Two Dollar Well Example

I've tried to say that I admire and respect Sen. Obama. He has accomplished great things, and he has motivated people, and so - and he loves his country, just as I do.

Respect Great People Great Things

That's not so important to me, that time thing.

Time Me Important Thing

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

Change Vision Time People Strategy

When I was a teenager, I was maybe a little bit angry.

Angry Little Maybe Teenager Bit

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholom Aleichem

Life Fool Wise Game Rich Comedy

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

People Me Direction Think Trying

When my generation, those early days of television - I know I've been thinking about this lately - my two flashes of me as a little boy. One, I'm standing in front of the radio freaking out that Nat King Cole's singing 'Lady of Spain', just this stuff coming out of the radio, and Guy Williams singing 'Wild Horses' coming out of the radio.

King Me Singing Thinking Generation

When I reflect on the Colbert interview, it moved so quickly that what we didn't do was define white privilege, and I wish we had done that. White privilege is the benefit resulting from white being seen as the standard, regardless of gender and income.

Wish Gender White Done Privilege

I don't want to make fictional characters who are perfect - that's a vanilla situation - but the fact is you are allowed to more carefully select and curate what it is you're going to explore.

You Perfect Situation Want Explore

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Me Ready Lazy Want Kind Jeans

I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.

Police House Twice Been Arrest Once

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