"The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes."

-- Evgeny Morozov

#Media Quotes #Dying Quotes #Egyptian Quotes

“Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.”
“I'm more boring and more conservative.”
“The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong.”
“There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were.”
“I just don't think there are any rules to color. You have a small space with no windows? Put lamps in there, make it dramatic, paint the ceiling black. Do something with it. If it's dark, accentuate the darkness.”
“Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.”
“When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.”

Source : "Kicking and Screaming: Noah Baumbach Grows Up with 'Greenberg'" by Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. March 18, 2010.
“My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.”

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