"Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers."

-- Eric Alterman

#Apples Quotes #Chinese Quotes #Next Quotes

“Girls donâ€™t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, donâ€™t snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while theyâ€™ve given up and try to lure someone else.”
“This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that assumes the nature of a fiction, an illusion, a devilish apparition. To a greater or lesser extent this applies to all the postcommunist countries.”

Source : Andrzej Stasiuk (2009). “Fado”
“The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you're a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture.”
“I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.”
“Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.”
“It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or newspaper is hacked out on the computer; that's a matter of efficiency. I write longer pieces of prose on a typewriter because the act of retyping it for the computer is a useful tactic for revision. Poems tend to be written longhand.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Tell no lies' claim no easy victories”

Source : Amilcar Cabral (1979). “Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral”, p.15, NYU Press
“We were iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a statement against that.”

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