"One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's greatest ambition was to be sponsored by Chipotle or something equivalent to that. It was this weird mix of collaborative, utopian claims and this total acquiescence to commercial imperatives."

-- Astra Taylor

#Ambition Quotes #Media Quotes #People Quotes

“A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.”
“God... Please keep my eyes focused on the only target worth hitting - Christlikeness!”

Source : Johnny Hunt (2011). “My Daily Devotional Prayer Book -”, p.200, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief.”
“My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.”

Source : "Time Out with Before Midnight's Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy". Interview with David Fear, www.timeout.com. June 12, 2013.
“It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.”

Source : Theodore Gordon (1947). “The Complete Fly Fisherman”
“Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album.”
“There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.”
“Give me B movies or give me death!”

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