"We really need the Internet to be that thing that we all dreamed of it being. We need it to connect us all together. We need it to introduce us to new ideas and new people and different perspectives. And it's not going to do that if it leaves us all isolated in a Web of one."

-- Eli Pariser

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“When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences, some of which may not be as pleasant as I'd like! I know one thing, however. Many viewers may come out of the theater not satisfied, but they won't be able to forget the movie. I know they'll be talking about it during their next dinner. I want them to be a little restless about my movies, and keep trying to find something in them.”

Source : "With Borrowed Eyes: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with David Sterritt, www.filmcomment.com. July/August 2000.
“I would never do anything that makes the perception of country music worse.”
“Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse.”
“Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.”

Source : "Strategy as Stretch and Leverage" by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad, hbr.org. March/April 1993.
“I am a little extrovert.”
“I focused more on sharing my gift and performing than worrying about it being a competition.”
“What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.”

Source : Irène Némirovsky (2006). “Suite Française: Storm in June”, Vintage
“Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.”

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