Julian Baggini Quotes

On social networking sites, we may expose ourselves, but we choose to do so. We are in control and, often wrongly, we do not feel we are giving away tradable data.

Julian Baggini

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ControlNetworkingFeelGivingData

I ski and grew up skiing.

Jeffrey Wright

SkiingUpGrewSki

We now have poured in an enormous amount of resources into cancer. The National Cancer Institute Project, you know, runs about $5 billion a year. That's a large amount of money, but let's not be grandiose about the amount of money we're actually spending on a problem that is attacking us at the most fundamental level of the human species.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

MoneyProblemYearYouKnowNow

Infrastructures of power always inhabit the surface of the earth somehow, or the skies above the earth. They're material things, always, and even though the metaphors we use to describe them are often immaterial - for example, we might describe the Internet as the Cloud or cyberspace - those metaphors are wildly misleading.

Trevor Paglen

PowerInternetCloudEarthSkies

We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

LifeChangeKnowWillThingsUs

Most of my stuff comes from Eloquii, Torrid, Lane Bryant - even Target!

Chrissy Metz

TargetLaneStuffEvenMostBryant

When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.

Christina Hendricks

AttentionFocusedStartedSomething

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

Corey Hart

MusicMeLonelyScaredBeingOxygen

'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.

Claire Tomalin

StoryPerfectChristmasBeenMost

I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan.

Bradley Whitford

ComedyWantSketchSeeFanBob

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Bobby Darin

LifeBusinessMeStartYouTop

Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough to hang around - and it is hard to stick around.

Bruce Willis

WorkBestThoughtEnoughNewHard

I hope to outlive my enemies.

William Sanderson

HopeEnemiesOutlive

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