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Quotation of the Day for March 31, 2012"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act." - Truman Capote Submitted by: Reddy, Michael Mar. 8, 2012  |
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Quotation of the Day for March 30, 2012"Because of the way Bowie ceaselessly reinvented himself, from his first gig, playing saxophone with the Kon-Rads at the Bromley Tech PTA school fête in June 1962, to his apparent retirement five or six years ago, through 27 studio albums, an estimated five thousand live shows, some of the best and a fair few of the worst songs of the last fifty years, the cliché is to call him a chameleon. Bowie got in with the description first, in "The Bewlay Brothers", the wilfully opaque final song on Hunky Dory (1971): "He's chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature." But he was more like the very hungry caterpillar, munching his way through every musical influence he came across: much of Hunky Dory consists of pastiches of Bowie's musical heroes of the 1960s - John Lennon, Syd Barrett, Anthony Newley, Bob Dylan, the Velvet Underground. Which would make Ziggy Stardust the beautiful butterfly that emerged from the chrysalis." - Thomas Jones, in "So Ordinary, So Glamorous" from the London Review of Books. Submitted by: Jennifer Labach Mar. 29, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 29, 2012"The last remaining myth of Western civilization was that sex was something to do; something expedient, a diversion." - Michel Houellebecq, in The Elementary Particles. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 19, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 28, 2012"I aspire to think of myself as an analog person, but I am not. I have been converted to digital without the remastering, and the fidelity is appalling." - Chuck Klosterman, from Eating the Dinosaur. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Feb. 28, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 27, 2012"We find our strong membership in the West in keeping with the trend of people with conservative values participating in what is considered "deviant" societal behaviour." - Noel Biderman, CEO of Ashley Madison, a web site for people who want to cheat on their partners, on why his site attracts so many people in "conservative"-leaning regions. [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/those-cheatin-hearts-which-canadian-city-is-tops-for-affairs/article2378139/] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 22, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 26, 2012"...a big bathroom wall where anyone can write anything." "We took over the Twitter handle so it wouldn't suck." - Anthony Bourdain's descriptions of social media and why he has a Twitter account. [http://www.kxly.com/news/technology/Anthony-Bourdain-We-are-food-pornographers/-/5622068/9296832/-/7t9s3t/-/index.html] Submitted by: Michael Hora Mar. 15, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 25, 2012"Americans have been made into permanent adolescents by advertising, mass culture--uncritical, herdminded, pleasure-loving, concerned about trivia of materialistic living, scared of death, sex, old age--friendship is sending Xmas cards, sex is the wet dream of those chromium-plated Hollywood glamour girls, death--is not. - Dwight Macdonald, quoted in The Letters of Dwight Macdonald (2002). Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 20, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 24, 2012"Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life." - Oscar Wilde, in his 1889 essay, The Decay of Lying. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 12, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 23, 2012"Ours is increasingly a country where sky-high economic expectations coexist with middle class wage stagnation, and where the idealization of married life coexists with steadily rising out-of-wedlock births. In this atmosphere, the fusion of a (moderate) social conservatism and a right-leaning economic populism could end up having a broader appeal than many alternative right-of-center visions." - Ross Douthat, The Future of the Santorum Coalition. [http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/the-future-of-the-santorum-coalition/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120307] Submitted by: Lynn Kisilenko Mar. 7, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 22, 2012"I'm amazed that you still see this nonsense all over the place, that truth is relative, that truth is subjective. People still cling to it." - Errol Morris, documentary filmmaker. [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Errol-Morris-The-Thinking-Mans-Detective.html] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 13, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 21, 2012"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." - Anais Nin, author and diarist. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 13, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 20, 2012"For every four Americans working a 50-hour week, every week, there's one American who should have a full-time job, but doesn't. Our rampant unemployment problem would vanish overnight if we simply worked the way we're supposed to by law." - Sara Robinson, defending the 40-hour work week. [http://www.alternet.org/visions/154518/why_we_have_to_go_back_to_a_40-hour_work_week_to_keep_our_sanity/?page=entire] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 16, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 19, 2012"How is the catastrophe [depicted in Titanic] connected to the couple, the rich upper-class girl and the poor lower-class boy? After making love, they go up on the deck and embrace again and then she tells him, "I will stay with you and abandon my people." At that moment the iceberg hits the ship. What's the point? I claim the true catastrophe would have been for them to stay together, because it wouldn't work and they would split. It's in order to save that impossible dream that the ship must sink." - Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Feb. 28, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 18, 2012"The idea of capturing the intelligence of the readership -- that's a joke." - Nick Denton, Gawker Media founder, on how the promise of interaction and discussion on the Internet has failed. Denton was speaking at South by Southwest Interactive 2012. [http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/11/tech/web/online-comments-sxsw/index.html?hpt=hp_t2] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 12, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 17, 2012"Black people don't play golf!" - James Brown, musician, while throwing golf clubs off his tour bus. Quoted in The One: The Life and Music of James Brown by R.J. Smith. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 13, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 16, 2012"What do they mean by that? Landscape and whores? That's what they want--nothing but landscape or if any figure pictures more or less languid whores." - Edward Burne-Jones, artist, responding to an assistant's statement that French Impressionism was not based on literature. [http://www5.shuimohua.com/uk/?post=705] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Mar. 12, 2012 |
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Quotation of the Day for March 15, 2012"I think one of the stupidest phrases in the English language is 'He died doing what he loved.'" - Chris Welsh, of Virgin Oceanic, on calculating risk. Welsh is planning the world's first solo dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 11 kilometres below the ocean surface. [http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/environment/virgin-oceanics-voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea/0] Submitted by: Terry Labach Mar. 1, 2012 |
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