"When you decide to like something, I mean, you may feel you're sort of innocently putting out your preferences, but actually you're delivering something of enormous value, which is indicating that, you know, you'd essentially like to be advertised to by this company."

-- Tim Wu

#Mean Quotes #May Quotes #Preference Quotes

“Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?”

Source : Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 10), 1956.
“My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.”
“Pretty Powerful symbolises my belief that all women are pretty, and with the right tools, are empowered to a higher level of pretty - it's about being confident and about being who you are”
“I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something.”
“Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.”
“Chaos is favorable to creativity.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Politicians neither love nor hate.”
“We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.”

Source : Jeet Thayil (2012). “Narcopolis”, p.21, Faber & Faber

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