"The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not that we're terrible addicts who need to go to an AA meeting and get off our gadgets."

-- Astra Taylor

#Data Collection Quotes #Needs Quotes #Gadgets Quotes

“Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.”
“Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.”

Source : Linda Barnes (2015). “Further Adventures of Carlotta Carlyle: Three Mystery Stories”, p.14, Open Road Media
“Be true to what matters most to your heart.”
“Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that's usually working in Asian food.”

Source : "Q&A with Tom Colicchio". Interview with Victorino Matus, www.weeklystandard.com. March 8, 2012.
“For me philosophy begins with these experiences of disappointment: a disappointment at the level of what I would think of as "meaning," namely that, given that there is no God, what is the meaning of life? And, given that we live in an unjust world, how are we to bring about justice?”

Source : Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. August 2003.
“We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.”

Source : Statement in 1937. "Great Powers and Outlaw States: Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order" by Gerry J. Simpson, p. 291, 2004.
“When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition.”
“Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.”

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