"The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet."

-- Clay Shirky

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“A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.”
“We were both very much the same. We were both very impulsive. We both loved life. We both loved shopping. We both had a love of clothes, obviously, because he was the designer that I kind of wore forever and ever.”
“As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.”
“Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.”
“There is competition. It's almost like I'm back in tennis competing in a way. There are usually about twenty composers vying for the number one spot for a big or medium film.”
“Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.”

Source : Richard De Bury (2006). “The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of R”, p.94, Cosimo, Inc.
“In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things.”
“We just kind of lost our way. But we were looking to be free. One day we'll float. Take life as it comes.”

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