David Carr Quotes

We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?

David Carr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 8, 1956 - February 12, 2015

Topics

LiveAgeTruthSocial MediaWorld

I've always had a love for making things my own.

Jennifer Hudson

LoveMy OwnAlwaysOwnThingsHad

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

Andrew Motion

BeautifulImaginationPersonSheHer

Numbers don't lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie.

Max Holloway

WomenMenLieNumbers

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

John Searle

StyleSimpleYourselfQuestionsYou

The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us.

Stella Young

WorkPeopleProblemWeekWillUs

It's funny how you call me a celebrity. Oh man.

Steven Hill

FunnyManMeYouCelebrityCall

I was born here and I was raised here in Los Angeles. And when I was five years old, my best friends were Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.

Troian Bellisario

BestFriendsBornLos AngelesStreet

Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.

Roberto Duran

MeBlackLegendWhiteJewsItalians

I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.

Michael Lynton

SchoolTwoJewishKidsTownOur

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Louisa May Alcott

GoodFriendsGood FriendsMoreBooks

I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is.

Joni Mitchell

WomenSongThoughtKnowWhyAlways

I find campfire stories and urban legends are kind of the bread and butter that inspires a lot of people who are making horror and thriller. There is a nugget of truth behind these sort of cautionary tales.

Jordan Peele

TruthPeopleFindKindLegends

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