"It wasn't that people wanted things for free and asked for advertising to fund it - it's that these companies wanted to amass an audience whose "eyeballs" they could sell, and they gave people things for free to do that. Free services and content has been foisted upon us because there wasn't the will power to explore other options."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Astra Taylor

#People Quotes #Advertising Quotes #Eyeballs Quotes

“Rock and roll doesn't necessarily mean a band. It doesn't mean a singer, and it doesn't mean a lyric, really. It's that question of trying to be immortal.”
“In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.”
“I knew [Jesse Owens'] name, but I really didn't remember what it is he had done, so I felt like I had to get refreshed. So I read the script and I realized like, wow, this is an incredible human being. I told my manager, however I had to do it, let me see the director; I got to play him.”
“But itâ€™s compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.”
“To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.”
“When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.”
“I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.”
“There's never been anyone like Bettie Before. Monroe had Harlow and Detrich, she had all of those blonde bombshells, but there was nothing like Bettie. She was the first icon of her nature.”

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