Lawrence Lessig Quotes

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

Lawrence Lessig

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I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

Jesse Eisenberg

GreatSchoolActingPlayOthers

We never want to go into a tour and play 15 songs and say 'Enjoy.' We have messages: Number 1, follow your dreams. If I can do it, you can do it. Number 2, give your life to something. We say, 'Volunteer and add seven years to your life.' You can have your own personal ministry. The message we have is 'What do you stand for?'

John Tesh

LifeDreamsYour DreamsYou Can Do It

I like short stories.

John Updike

ShortLikeStoriesShort Stories

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.

Stokely Carmichael

ManQuestionRaiseCondemnHimself

I raced motocross; I raced for Suzuki when I was a kid.

Mike Dean

Kid

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

Michel Houellebecq

LifeSpeakThinkKnowRealBecause

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

Joss Whedon

SingingEgoWantBecomeGiantKevin

I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually the opposite of bioethics, because bioethicists are the people who increasingly set up and justify the systems we patient advocates have to fight.

Alice Dreger

HistoryFightPeopleMedicineUp

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

William Tecumseh Sherman

WordsTiredBetterStopLaborMean

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

William John Wills

RidePracticeMeFindRidingLittle

Let's be clear: I love singing at the Met.

Susanna Phillips

LoveSingingClearMetI Love

She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army.

Susanna Clarke

ArmyCircumstancesGentleSheRight

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