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Neil Postman Quotes

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 8, 1931 - October 5, 2003

Topics

Life Best Living Different Schooling

You lose yourself in the to-do list and never tackle those big things you promised you would when the campaign came to an end.

Yourself End You Lose Never Big

To fly we have to have resistance.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

Relationship People Black Think Same

'Endgame' resists narrative and even thematic explanation. How you play it has to reflect this. If you decide something too much in advance, you forget the element that gives the play life - the audience.

Life You Too Much Play Forget

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

Sea Stand Grow You Island Matters

I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really.

Crime Always Being Accused Really

I don't know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when there are people who are in need.

People Fast Know Group Need Who

I played drums on Keith Carradine's first record.

First Drums Record Played

I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one.

Think Now Want Movies Breath Hold

For many years, I've wanted to do one, and I've always mentioned it to the chieftains, and they would say things like, 'Oh well. Christmas albums don't sell,' and things like that. But that's not the point. Christmas albums are important. The music is important. The season is important.

Aretha Franklin

Music Important Say Christmas Always

We have created something incredible. You don't need to get your phone out anymore. Gear takes the entirety of your digital world and places it right where you can see.

World You Phone Places Digital Need

We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

Lionel Trilling

Health Sickness Universal Idea Even

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