“We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.”
— Michael Eisner
Author: Michael Eisner
Category: technology
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“Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.”
— William Allan
Author: William Allan
Category: learning
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“Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.”
— Alfred Austin
Author: Alfred Austin
Category: wisdom
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“There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything – millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.”
— Richard Pryor
Author: Richard Pryor
Category: women
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“I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children.”
— George Shearing
Author: George Shearing
Category: teacher
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“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
— Gore Vidal
Author: Gore Vidal
Category: time
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“That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.”
— Satish Kumar
Author: Satish Kumar
Category: morning
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“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
— William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Category: men
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“Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.”
— Baruch Spinoza
Author: Baruch Spinoza
Category: nature
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“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief… For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
— Wendell Berry
Author: Wendell Berry
Category: peace
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“Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.”
— Thomas Frank
Author: Thomas Frank
Category: money
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