"You can get an audience, you can get followers all over the world and there's great power and excitement in those connections but there also is grave danger of misinterpretation, sometimes something can be incendiary and we also see what I think of as an arms race between these new technologies that allow for expression and communication and then new methods of surveillance and suppression."

-- Suzanne Nossel

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“My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.”
“My real fans know who I truly am and they know what I represent and what I mean.”
“Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.”

Source : Stephen L. Carter (2002). “The Emperor of Ocean Park”, Knopf
“A tragic mistake that is often made is to assume that the will of God is bound to be something very dull and uninviting, if not positively unpleasant. Consciously or not some persons look upon God as a hard taskmaster, or a severe parent. . . . The truth is that the will of God for us always means greater freedom, greater self-expression, newer and brighter experience, wider opportunity of service to others-life more abundant.”
“If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.”
“There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes,”

Source : "U.N. launches probe into alleged Israeli crimes in Gaza". www.reuters.com. July 23, 2014.
“But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.”
“That seems like one of the differences in expectations of "serious" and "popular" music that you can actually depend on the liner notes to explain yourself? Yeah. Whereas in popular music you depend on photo shoots. A hardcore band who looked like Duran Duran would have to depend upon those liner notes.”

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