Online Quotes - Page 22

• I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

  Biz Stone

  Writing, Age, Care

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The TSA tears through your bags at the airport and the NSA watches what books you buy and what you say over the telephone and online. It doesn't feel like anything is private anymore.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Airports, Tsa

  "The Rumpus Interview With Sandra Cisneros". Interview with Olivia, therumpus.net. January 13, 2016.

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• I think online dating is a way of procuring people. Like Facebook and Myspace, it's the way that people connect now and procure small children and sometimes dodgy relationships. I don't think it's very healthy.

  Tom Hardy

  Children, Thinking, People

  "Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Chelsea Handler and Director McG Talk THIS MEANS WAR". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Online dating is cool but I think Myspace and Facebook is a little bit off key.

  Tom Hardy

  Thinking, Keys, Dating

  "Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Chelsea Handler and Director McG Talk THIS MEANS WAR". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Charging for news online won't work if what is provided is the same as is available elsewhere.

  Robert G. Picard

  News, Charging, Elsewhere

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• Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts.

  Robert G. Picard

  Two, Expecting, Newspapers

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• I believe that online paid content hasn't worked for general circulation newspapers because consumers weren't ready for it, because the implementation did not deliver enough value, because content was typically the same as in the print version, and because much of the material was being syndicted by the papers to other publishers or was not protected with DRM technologies to exclude use by others.

  Robert G. Picard

  Believe, Technology, Drm

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• One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part of the online world you want to live in. You can make your own kingdom in that sense.

  Stephen Fry

  World, Want, Kingdoms

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I stupidly memorize my credit card and use it about thrice weekly for online shopping. The only reason I don't bankrupt myself is that I return about 75% of what I buy.

  Mindy Kaling

  Shopping, Return, Cards

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• I have a whole system down for returning online shopping: a tape gun, a printer for return labels. That has replaced traditional window shopping in my life, as I've gotten busier.

  Mindy Kaling

  Gun, Window Shopping, Tape

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• I don't have very much time to surf the net, because it's as though my boss has a tracking device on me. The instant I'm looking at a Chloe sweater on Shopbop, I'll get a call in my office with a PA asking: "Paul wants to know where you are and why you're not in the writers room, and if maybe you're online shopping."

  Mindy Kaling

  Shopping, Sweaters, Office

  "The Office's Mindy Kaling Dishes On Fashion, Beauty, And Hollywood!". Interview with Kate Mulling, www.refinery29.com. October 13, 2011.

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• For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, Nature, Turkeys

  "Obama pardons two Thanksgiving turkeys with mercy and humour" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2012.

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• Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the importance.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Signatures, Forget, Petitions

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The first thing we can do as individuals and as communities, like a school or a university or a church, is cut our energy use. Do an energy audit or measure our carbon footprint using online carbon calculators that are free, easy, and cheap. Get a list of the ways that we can stop wasting so much energy and save money.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  School, Cutting, Carbon Footprint

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I use Instagram as an online gallery to display my work. For me, it's almost more important to exist online than it is in real life.

  Kesh

  Real, Important, Use

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I be showing my films in theaters or just think about getting them out online? There were other issues, too.

  Astra Taylor

  Thinking, Opportunity, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model.

  Astra Taylor

  Attention, Models, Courses

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There was all this enthusiasm about amateurism and the idea that people could now just make videos in their bedroom, or blog news stories and share it online, and isn't this great? Now we can do it just for the love of it and not try to be professionals, corrupted by careerism.

  Astra Taylor

  News Stories, Ideas, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We haven't developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is "public," but we just mean it's viewable online. Or we say it's "open," but we just mean it's accessible. I would like for us to think about terms critically and maybe change our vocabulary a bit. What if pubic actually meant publicly-funded, or social meant socialized.

  Astra Taylor

  Mean, Thinking, Vocabulary

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm just online too much. I drink too much. A lot of bad things.

  Luke Temple

  Too Much, Drink, Bad Things

  Interview with James Rickman, therumpus.net. June 30, 2014.

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• Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Play, People

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• I think anything we do - eating, walking down the street, online shopping - gives you another perspective on writing stories.

  Peter Orner

  Writing, Thinking, Shopping

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With any video you see online, like with YouTube, you gotta watch an ad, and that's gotta stop. And I think it'll stop by...the shitty network shows they put out will just have the ads in the shows. The characters will be eating Cheetos or whatever.

  Derek Waters

  Character, Thinking, Watches

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Obama said they've had some glitches with the Affordable Care website. I'll tell you something. If you order a pair of pants online and they send you the wrong color, that's a glitch. This is like a Carnival cruise, for God's sake!

  David Letterman

  Order, Color, Glitches

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• Paste Magazine needs to stay in business! It's the first non-sensational quality music and film publication that doesn't only attempt to appeal to middle-aged male Bob Dylan completionists! And there are still many of us who love to pick up a print magazine instead of going online.

  Nina Persson

  Quality, Males, Needs

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