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Ethan Zuckerman Quotes

People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

Ethan Zuckerman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american

Topics

Money Creative People Thinking Want

Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is a give-away. It's more reminiscent of a human menagerie than human society.

Society Profit Race Human Vocabulary

As a journalist, I have wanted very much to find a way to write about the music industry, and it's been frustrating to me that that's never worked out.

Music Me Find Way Never Write

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

Technology People Think Understanding

I've been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I've been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough.

Stephen Greenblatt

Good Small Thought Enough Long Find

Politics will take care of itself. I'm interested in people who are involved in the situations that politicians create. Politics is taken care of by politicians - they're not filmmakers.

Steven Rodney McQueen

Politics People Care Take Care Will

Coos Bay is a sports-minded town. You had to be an athlete to be somebody.

Steve Prefontaine

You Athlete Somebody Bay Town Had

I love the humor of 'Monty Python.' I always remember being so impressed by how violent 'Monty Python' are, actually, when you look at what they do. Terry Gilliam has a great way of kind of proposing violence.

Miguel Sapochnik

Love Great Humor Remember You Look

I get up around 8 o'clock, which gives me enough time to walk dogs and feed chickens and horses. Then I get to work in my home office upstairs, and basically, I don't stop until I've written 2,000 words and/or the Stephen Colbert show is over.

Lisa Scottoline

Work Home Time Walk Words Me

We're all from China, and whoever wins, it's OK - I just try my best.

Best Try China Just OK Wins

I try to be home for dinner, but I'm not there enough. I sometimes feel I'm still fumbling, getting it wrong, but I make my way.

Annie Leibovitz

Home Dinner Feel Enough Wrong Way

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It's so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you're also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it's just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

Life God Writing Fashion Thought

I was a halfway-decent-looking English boy who looked nice in a drawing-room standing by a piano.

Nice Boy Standing Piano English Who

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