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• When going on a date with someone they met online, the number-one fear that straight women have is going on a date with a serial killer. The number-one fear straight men have is going on a date with a fat woman. That says everything.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Men, Numbers, Dating

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• Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Past, Games, Impact

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• The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves.

  Esther Earl

  Good Friend, Self, Giving

  Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• If you aren’t going to say something directly to someone’s face, than don’t use online as an opportunity to say it. It is this sense of bravery that people get when they are anonymous that gives the blogosphere a bad reputation.

  Mena Grabowski Trott

  Opportunity, People, Giving

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• I'm hearing in youth sports where you're not allowed to post scores of games online; everybody's gotta get a trophy. I mean, that's ridiculous. If you're a winner, you're a winner and you get a trophy. If you got second place, you don't get anything.

  Carli Lloyd

  Sports, Mean, Games

  Source: www.slate.com

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• You have to assume everything is going to end up online, even if you're alone in a hotel elevator.

  Megan Fox

  Assuming, Elevators, Ends

  "What Megan Fox Looks for in a Man (and Turtle)". Interview with J. Rentilly, www.menshealth.com. August 8, 2014.

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• I was one of the first to use the online medium as a way to talk about celebrity news in as close to real time as possible. ... I was lucky to be one of the first. I also worked hard, and put in the hours - probably 16 to 17 a day.

  Perez Hilton

  Real, Way, Firsts

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I keep in touch with my fans by keeping a blog online and I try to answer questions every day. I also have a twitter and a facebook. I think that social networking gives authors a unique insight in the minds of their fans and for me that is very valuable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Unique, Thinking, Giving

  Phantastik-Couch.de Interview, www.phantastik-couch.de. March 2012.

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• The social web can't exist until you are your real self online. I have to be me. You have to be you. Once we are online as ourselves, connected to each other and our other friends, then you can have the evolution of what becomes the social web.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Real, Self, Evolution

  "Zuckerberg Talks To Charlie Rose About Steve Jobs, IPOs, And Google’s 'Little Version Of Facebook'". Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I shop all the time, basically every day, whether it's online or in every city we go to.

  Russell Westbrook

  Cities, Shops

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Moving, Challenges, Video

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• If you are not online, people look at you askance. I think in three to four years' time people will look equally askance at you if you haven't got the ability for consumers to buy what they want, where they want and how they want.

  Stuart Rose

  Thinking, Years, People

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• The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

  Howard Gardner

  People, Community, Young

  "The Global Search for Education: What Do We Value Most?". Interview with C. M. Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2011.

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• Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Reader, Ifs

  "Modern Cartoonist Daniel Clowes Prefers Paper to iPad" by Hugh Hart, www.wired.com. May 24, 2012.

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• The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Land, Purpose, Driving

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

  Michael Azerrad

  Wisdom, People, Musical

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• I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.

  Samantha Bee

  Children, Clothes, Buying

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• What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Mouths, Messages, Internet

  "Confronting Cyber Violence in the Digital Age" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I don't shop online. I'm always scared to put my credit card on the Internet!

  Kristin Cavallari

  Cards, Credit, Scared

  "Kristin Cavallari: Life After The Hills". Interview, www.seventeen.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I don't read much of anything online.

  Daniel Clowes

  "Daniel Clowes Talks Confidential". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. May 1, 2006.

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• There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

  Daniel Ek

  Artist, Creating, People

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• When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

  Gary Gygax

  Running, Moving, Rpgs

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• It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful.

  Wendell Pierce

  Tv Shows, People, Vacuums

  "Wendell Pierce: Everyone's Favorite Fake Trombone Player". Interview with Patrick Jarenwattananon, www.npr.org. July 4, 2011.

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• As retail goes through a fundamental shift into the digital world, I believe Ocado's model and the high standards of customer service it provides will see it emerge as a powerful online player.

  Stuart Rose

  Powerful, Believe, Player

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• I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

  Dave Eggers

  Morning, News, Back When

  "Dave Eggers on his favorite things about newspapers" by Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. January 05, 2010.

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