"When I was growing up in the U.S. in the 1970s, 35-40% of an average nightly newscast focused on international stories."

-- Ethan Zuckerman

#Growing Up Quotes #Average Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.”

Source : John Swartzwelder (2004). “The Time Machine Did It”
“Short film: you can be poetic and you don't have to answer anything. You can make whatever you want. You have creative freedom with short film.”
“Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”
“I suppose it's not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do - to feel, discuss feelings. So that's what I'm giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff...what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like.”
“We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.”
“We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.”

Source : Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr
“The church doesn’t have a mission; there is a mission, and it has the church.”
“Don't be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.”

You may also like:

Christopher Locke
Blogger
Clay Shirky
Writer
danah boyd
Researcher
David Weinberger
Author
Evgeny Morozov
Writer
John Palfrey
Educator
Joichi Ito
Entrepreneur
Jonathan Zittrain
Law professor
Rebecca MacKinnon
Blogger