"Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials."

-- Neil Postman

#Ideas Quotes #Looks Quotes #Arguing Quotes

“I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.”

Source : "THR Roundtable: Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies, Keri Russell on Explicit Sex Scenes, Crazy Fans and Lactating on George Clooney". www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 21, 2014.
“Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like customers who can and should demand quality care.”
“The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.”
“Let me see if I can put this in scientific terms: Think of autism like a fart, and vaccines are the finger you pull to make it happen.”
“I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.”
“LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.”

Source : "Gaming academic Jesse Schell expounds on chocofication and motivating players to play and pay". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. February 10, 2013.
“Sometimes it is really hard to sit in the single and go for a row. I think this is really normal. I, like probably a lot of people, burn out every once in a while. What I have learned from my own experience is that there are two reasons for it to happen. It is that I am either physically tired or mentally tired. If either of these are the case, the wisest decision is to blow off practice. Blowing off practice is healthy. I didn't understand that until I was so burnt out that I wanted to make scrap material out of my single and my oars.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“Fear and prejudice put up a terrible fight when they sense change coming.”

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