Eli Pariser Quotes

To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

Eli Pariser

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GoodShoesYourselfIdentityPeople

There is no greater medal than to be acclaimed for your style.

Johan Cruyff

StyleGreaterYourThanMedal

I think that people ran out of oxygen and don't really know what happened up there, maybe some of them just made things up because they weren't sure what had happened.

Anatoli Boukreev

PeopleThinkKnowOutUpThings

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

John Hurt

LifeGodWavesLaughMy LifeYou

I'm a sensitive guy. If you are a woman and you're in any kind of emotional duress and you write a song about it, I'll buy you album.

Matthew Perry

WomanSongYouKindWriteEmotional

My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.

Michael Hirst

CharacterIdeasWritingTalkingWay

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

Stanley Hauerwas

MoreAssumeBritishReligiousThan

I don't want to be the biggest superstar. I want to be good at my job, and I want my work to go down in posterity. I am working for the longevity of my career.

Sonam Kapoor

WorkGoodJobI AmCareerDown

Hispanic citizens know that illegal labor is taking jobs from their children and their legal immigrant friends.

Tom Tancredo

ChildrenLegalFriendsLaborKnow

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

Tom Waits

SchoolListeningLearnYouWonder

I am fine with 'Puppy Love.' I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. 'Puppy Love.'

Donny Osmond

LoveI AmMaturitySongSexyTrying

To make money I picked up work as a busboy, valet parker, skateboard shop employee.

David Spade

WorkMoneyEmployeeUpMakeValet

Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

Christina Romer

GovernmentCompetitionEconomics

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