Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.
Umberto Eco
Recitation: by Male by Female
Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the medium, treating technology like a new tool rather than a sociopolitical framework.
Jenna Wortham
WorkTechnologyFocusLateNewTool
I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.
John Fogerty
LivePeopleMeTryingPlayNew
You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.
Andrew Sean Greer
LifeLoveGoodGreatTimeStart
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
John Leo
SmallFreeSpeechConservativeVery
Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.
Jeffrey Kluger
KnowledgeSucceedWrongKnowRight
It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider.
Tracy Morgan
BirdYouHouseSharksZooThree
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May
FutureSadDepressionConstruct
I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.
Louis Garrel
AloneMyselfMomentThinkPlayAct
We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time.
Jay Weatherill
FutureTimeKeyCreditChooseWill
If one day someone came up to me and was like, 'Look, you're never going to act again,' I don't know what I would do.
Chris Pratt
DayMeSomeoneYouLookKnow
Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was no ordinary mortal. History is rife with mysteries, and that visit ignited a fire to unveil some of them.
Ashwin Sanghi
HistoryFireMeWritingBookPerson
I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.
Ally Sheedy
LoveWomanManBlackThinkFall
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