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Daveed Diggs Quotes

Using something that is really painful, generally, as the percussive element for a beat, I think is cool.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: January 24, 1982

Topics

Cool Think Painful Beat Something

I hear, 'But why do poor people make such bad decisions?' But actually, their decision-making can be far more complex than that of the better-off in many ways. They're not financially illiterate: they're constantly weighing up choices based on the reality of poverty. Somehow the international development community has resisted accepting this.

Community People Choices Reality Bad

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

Diet Against Like Diseases Chronic

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

Alone Travel Feel Hotel Trying You

I competed with Yahoo for 15-1/2 years, and the one thing I tried to do over the years was desperately try to get a deal with them.

Try Over Years Get Deal One Thing

Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels.

Today Rest Georgia Position Laurels

There has long been an argument in New York about what, exactly, the purpose of book awards ought to be. One model sees them as a celebration of the unquestioned best and brightest, a triumphal parade for marquee authors who have published in a given year.

Best Purpose New York Book Year New

Novelists do not swing on the same pendulums as critics.

Swing Critics Same Novelists

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'

People Stand Up Feet Stand Nobody

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

Life Whole Ten CDs Bought

My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

Time Now Never Paranoid Paranoia

I've always had a loud mouth, and for that I've gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in some big competitions in my career, but being counted out and not being seen as a threat is something I'm used to.

Attention Mouth Career Always Out

I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook's reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking's convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.

Douglas Rushkoff

Technology I Am People Choices Doing

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