“I'm a friend of the CEO of Twitter and he showed me how to be on it, but it causes such an uproar if what you post is perceived in a negative light.” IfsLightCausesNegativePostsCeo Author:Dana Carvey
“The New York Post quoted Senator Hillary Clinton saying that she would never run for President, declaring "That is not something I'm going to be doing. "Which in Clinton talk means "I will be President in three years.” YearsMeanRunningThreePresidentNew YorkClintonPostsThree YearsSenatorsDeclaring Author:Tina Fey
“Can you imagine getting a gun for a secret Santa? That is especially not a good idea if you work in a post office.” IfsIdeasSecretImagineOfficeGunPostsGood IdeasSantaPost Office Author:Chelsea Handler
“According to the New York Post, Lance Armstrong and Ashley Olsen are dating. They must be getting serious - Lance gave Ashley his yellow Live Strong bracelet. She wears it as a belt.” StrongNew YorkSeriousDatingPostsYellowBeltsArmstrongBraceletAshley Author:Chelsea Handler
“Whenever I'm doing any film, there's always three different things. There's the script, which is really just a blueprint. And then, you shoot the movie and it's an entirely different experience than you would expect from reading the script. And then, there's the whole post process and the editing, and it becomes something else entirely.” DifferentWholeFilmThreeReadingProcessScriptsPostsDifferent ThingsEditingBlueprintsDifferent Experiences Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas
“What happened with Final Destination was that the movie was in post-production for a long time and I think they changed a lot of the deaths, so a lot of those things were last-minute additions. Everything we shot is in the movie and it's all been designed. We didn't change anything. It's been a year of making those things happen, exactly as we had pictured them.” ThinkingYearsLongHappensLastsHappenedMinutesChangedLong TimeShotsFinalsProductionsThings HappenPostsDestinationLast MinuteFinal DestinationPost Production Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“Directing takes a lot longer than acting. This was about seven years in development, and then two and a half years with pre-production, production, post and now the release. Not that I have people banging on my door to star in movies, but it takes me out of the acting game for a longer chunk of time.” PeopleYearsTwoGamesStarsActingHalfDoorsDevelopmentSevenProductionsReleasePostsTake MeSeven YearsChunksBangingHalf A Year Author:David Schwimmer
“I think that if you're creating an environment completely or...in my research, what I've learned is that if it's a CG world or a lot of visual effects, you're almost better doing that in post.” IfsThinkingWorldEnvironmentEffectsCreatingResearchPostsI've LearnedVisualsVisual Effects Author:Neal H. Moritz
“I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.” PeopleDiesChanceInternetRateVideoPostsKicksSiteBlogsWebsiteFormatFunny Or DieFunny Videos Author:J. B. Smoove
“When Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, I felt America's post-Cold War commitment to national principles and international leadership was on the line. I was dismayed by the wide opposition among my fellow Democrats. To me, their position was wrong.” WarAmericaForceFeltLinesPrinciplesPositionColdCommitmentFellowsDemocratInternationalWidePostsOppositionCold WarSaddamHusseinKuwaitDismayed Author:Joe Lieberman
“I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.” ThinkingMatterSeemsNo Matter WhatRemainsPostsShocking Author:David LaChapelle
“Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing in common except want of a spouse: but there is a great difference between a spouse-to-be and a spouse lost.” MenWantChristianLostDifferencesCommonPostsVirginsSpouseWidows Author:C. S. Lewis
“An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our ontological distinctions between the imaginary and the real, and the tragic elusiveness of the Cartesian dream. We have indeed learnt to fix the shadows, but not to secure their meanings or to stabilize their truth values; they still flicker on the walls of Plato's cave.” StillsRealDreamTodayFacesValuesWallShadowSecureErasPostsInnocenceDistinctionTragicImaginaryPlatoCavesFragilityFlickerPlato SElusivenessPlato's Cave Author:William J. Mitchell
“How could two teams of scientists come to such obviously contradictory conclusions on seemingly every point that matters in the debate over global warming? There are many reasons why scientists disagree, the subject, by the way, of an excellent book a couple years ago titled Wrong by David H. Freedman. A big reason is IPCC is producing what academics call "post-normal science" while NIPCC is producing old-fashioned "real science.” WayYearsTwoBookRealMatterReasonBigsTeamSubjectsCoupleNormalYears AgoScientistDebateConclusionPostsExcellentReason WhyGlobal WarmingDisagreeOld FashionedContradictory Author:Joseph L. Bast
“I don't want people to feel like they have to state something in a certain way because so-and-so might be around on the site. It's nice when people have a forum to discuss things among themselves. If you had a certain special-occasion blog I could probably contribute...I normally post on my site if I'm writing about music, and if you have a specific issue you're addressing or you want me to write about certain topics, then I'd be happy to try.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsWritingTryingStatesMightCertainIssuesNiceSpecialOccasionsPostsWant MeSiteTopicsBlogsYou Want MeForumsSpecial Occasion Author:Hilary Hahn
“It's funny how film is the slowest art form to adapt to freedom. It's had freedom all along. It could've done whatever it wanted to. You know the same freedom that do-it-yourself punk and post-punk musicians had in the late 70s and ever since. That's about the time I started getting interested in film, and I assumed that film would be moving along with the other pop culture forms. Its finally done it but it's taken decades for it to catch up just to basement band level.” KnowsArtDoneWould BeWantedFilmMovingFormCultureLevelsTakenBandLateMusicianPopsDecadesPostsPunkPop CultureBasementsDo It Yourself Author:Guy Maddin
“What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doing well in the culture. We're seeing more women writing dystopian fiction, more women writing novels set post-apocalyptic settings, subjects and themes that used to be dominated by men.” MenWritingWellsDoeMatterSeemsUsedCultureInterestingFictionNovelWrittenSeeingSubjectsSettingUsed To BeSettingsPostsThemeDystopianSubject MatterApocalypticDystopian FictionPost Apocalyptic Author:Laurie Foos
“Since the police department is becoming more and more militarized we're stuck in a position where we're reverting to that sort of behaviour that other places still suffer from because they're kept in that post-colonial state of development indefinitely so we can reap the benefits of taking whatever natural resources they have.” StillsStatesSufferingNaturalPositionDevelopmentBecomingBenefitsResourcesPoliceStuckPostsDepartmentBehaviourReapBecoming MoreNatural ResourcesPolice DepartmentReverting Author:Immortal Technique
“These days, everyone is a writer, producer and movie star. You post something on the web, get enough hits, and suddenly you have TV show.” EnoughShowsStarsTvsProducersPostsThese DaysTv ShowsMovie Star Author:Dustin Diamond
“There were colored and white waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know. But there were actually colored windows at the post office in, for example, Pensacola, Florida. And there were white and colored telephone booths in Oklahoma. And there were separate windows where white people and black people would go to get their license plates in Indianola, Mississippi. And there were even separate tellers to make your deposits at the First National Bank in Atlanta.” PeopleKnowsFirstsMayWaitingBlackWhiteRoomsExampleOfficeWindowDoctorsPostsStationsBusBlack PeoplePlatesFloridaTelephonesLicenseMississippiAtlantaDepositsOklahomaPost OfficeWaiting RoomsLicense Plate Author:Isabel Wilkerson
“I was a center in college but I was a high post guy, feeding cutters and rebounding. Going to pro ball, I clearly wasn't big and strong enough to play center against giants like Mikan so I kept evolving.” EnoughPlayBigsGuyStrongCollegeBallsPostsEvolveGiantsFeedingStrong EnoughCutters Author:Dolph Schayes
“I was 25 years old and pursuing my doctorate in economics when I was allowed to spend six months of postgraduate studies in Naples, Italy. I read the Western economic textbooks and also the more general work of people like Hayek. By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market. In 1968, I was glad at the political liberalism of the Dubcek Prague Spring, but I was very critical of the Third Way they pursued in economics.” PeopleWayYearsPoliticalUnderstandingPrinciplesStudyEconomicMonthsSixSpringEconomicsThirdsWesternCriticalGladPostsLiberalismGraduatesSix MonthsPursuedTextbooksHayekNaplesCzechoslovakiaDoctoratesPrague Author:Vaclav Klaus
“Judging by their positions at the time, rather than their post hoc allegations, Democrats adored the Soviet Union. Congressional Democrats repeatedly opposed funding anti-Communist rebels, they opposed Reagan's military build-up, they opposed building a shield to protect America from incoming missiles, they opposed putting missiles in Europe. As a rule, Democrats opposed anything opposed by their cherished Soviet Union.” AmericaMilitaryPositionBuildingJudgingProtectEuropeUnionsDemocratPostsCommunistRebelSovietSoviet UnionFundingShieldsMissilesAllegationsAnti Communist Author:Ann Coulter
“Here's some exciting news - according to The New York Post, both Al Gore and John Kerry are thinking of running for president in 2008. Gore and Kerry again! Political experts say it's too early to tell who would lose bigger!” ThinkingRunningPoliticalPresidentLosesNew YorkNewsBiggerExcitingPostsExpertsAlsGoreJohn Kerry Author:Jay Leno
“Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities‚ but the White Earth reservation villages‚ and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake‚ Ponemah‚ Brookston in Minnesota‚ and Manderson‚ Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community.” WellsMeanEarthCommunityWhiteOfficeTownsImpactSouthPostsKneesNativeLakesHardshipVillageWoundedClosureReservationsMinnesotaDakotaPost OfficeSouth DakotaNorth DakotaWounded Knee Author:Winona LaDuke
“Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.” HouseMankindMastersPostsCustomsOfficersIndifferentObligedConversesInns Book:Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2) Source: Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)
“Today the Washington Post did an article; they compared the 2008 presidential election to the 1932 presidential election. They did a comparison, mainly because 1932 was the first time John McCain ran for president.” FirstsTodayPresidentFirst TimeElectionPostsPresidentialRanComparisonArticlesMccainPresidential Election Author:Conan O'Brien
“We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ...the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.” IfsNeedsEnoughTeachTeacherCollegeGoes OnUnionsSpendingPostsRight ThingGraduatesEmphasisTeachers Unions Author:Rupert Murdoch
“The Olympic Games are for 'the youth of the world,' but they're organized and scored by countries. It's no surprise that countries treat them as vehicles of national pride, and assume that their people will be most interested in their own athletes. So anybody who was saving up to write an angry letter, blog post, or op-ed about NBC's chauvinistic coverage: don't bother! They're actually more above-the-fray than most. Also, their coverage is not shown anywhere except America - I know, it's because I can't get it that I'm watching Women's Air Pistol - so can't ruffle feathers elsewhere.” PeopleKnowsWorldWritingI CanCountryAmericaGamesAirYouthPrideLettersTreatsAngryAssumingSurpriseAthleteSavingPostsBotherOrganizedVehicleElsewhereFeathersBlogsBecause I CanCoveragePistolsOlympic GamesFrayNbcRufflesNational PrideSaving Up Author:James Fallows
“Not only the financial power, but also the legal power, has remained seated in Britain. The Washington Post commented on June 18, 1983 that after the American Revolution, all the old laws remained in effect in the new United States: Some of these laws of "English common law" dated back to 1278, long before America was discovered.” LongStatesAmericaLawUnitedCommonUnited StatesEffectsRevolutionFinancialPostsBritainJuneAmerican RevolutionCommon Law Author:Eustace Mullins
“An aggravating feature of this post-9/11 atmosphere is to cast suspicions on Muslims and on Islam as a religion that is interpreted as either inherently violent or death-oriented, with a particular animus against America and Americans.” AmericaParticularIslamCastsViolentPostsAtmosphereFeaturesSuspicionAggravatingAnimus Author:Richard A. Falk
“The criminalization of Black life was something specific to the United States in the post-Reconstruction period and there's something like it happening today with mass incarceration, directed largely against black males.” StatesTodayBlackUnitedUnited StatesPeriodsMassHappeningsMalesPostsReconstructionIncarcerationMass IncarcerationBlack LivesBlack Males Author:Noam Chomsky
“I thought, I might not look my best, I've forgotten half the words to my songs and I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I've just got to get out there and do it.” LooksMightSufferingSongHalfStressForgottenPosts Author:Marc Almond
“I had very little support from any feminist organization. But fortunately my post-marital lover, who had bailed out of academia over political in-fighting, was a one-man support team. He was the one who pushed me to write.” MenWritingLittlesPoliticalFightingSupportTeamLoversOrganizationFeministPostsOne ManAcademia Author:Betty Dodson
“Obviously, being the CEO, there are a lot of eyes on what you do and what you post and how you post, and I think one of the challenges of Instagram in general is that, as we get bigger, there are just more voices in the room, more eyes on everyone's accounts.” ThinkingEyeVoiceChallengesRoomsAccountsBiggerPostsCeoInstagram Author:Kevin Systrom
“My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because it can start to feed into your writing time. When you are writing a book, it's such a long journey where the payoff is way at the end, sometimes years away. The payoff of the blog post is today. You get the reinforcement, comments or "likes" immediately. It's appealing. You have to be patient with the book.” WayWritingYearsLongBookEndsSometimesTodaySocialJourneyMediaPatientCaughtCarefulSocial MediaLikesPostsCommentBe CarefulCaught UpBe PatientBlogsWriting A BookBloggingPayoffLong JourneyReinforcement Author:Matt de la Pena
“The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post office, there's a marker for a ball that Robert E. Lee hosted, there's a marker for where Jefferson Davis had a meeting. We love reminding people about all that was going on in the mid-nineteenth century.” PeopleFirstsCenturyOfficeBallsMeetingsSouthPostsLandscapeImageryNineteenth CenturyRemindingSaturatedConfederateMarkersPost OfficeMontgomery Author:Bryan Stevenson
“In the future, we've forgotten it. It's disappointing to find out that the past is the present is the future. Nobody wants that. And yet, that's what it is. Maybe it's a kind of surrealist move, to use language like "post-racial" - thinking that if you create the language for it, it will happen. I wish it worked that way. But that's not our reality.” IfsThinkingWayWantKindUseRealityHappensPastMovingLanguageWishForgottenPostsDisappointingSurrealist Author:Claudia Rankine
“I agree that all kids of all colors love hip-hop. My point in writing the book was to raise questions about the ways the hip-hop generation and the millennium generation, both who have lived their entire lives in post-segregation America, are processing race in radically different ways than any generation of Americans. I think they have a lot to tell us as a country about ways of addressing race matters.” ThinkingWayWritingBookDifferentCountryMatterKidsAmericaRaceGenerationsColorRaisesAgreeHip HopHipsPostsDifferent WaysHopsSegregationProcessingMillenniumRaises Questions Author:Bakari Kitwana
“Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we'd better do something postmodernist - quickly, before somebody else did.” ThinkingKindIdeasAgeCultureToo MuchPostsEnteringPompous Author:David Bowie
“I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.” ChildrenStatesKidsSchoolLawUnitedUnited StatesFiveRiskSeriousHusbandTaxesDegreesCourtRaisedLawyerReformPostsMy HusbandMaryScholarshipFoster ChildrenCharterEducation ReformDoctoratesCharter SchoolsFederal Taxes Author:Michele Bachmann
“Post World War II America draws a great deal of interest, but the students also seem to know quite a bit about American exceptionalism and its historical roots.” KnowsWorldWarSeemsAmericaBitsInterestDealsStudentsDrawsRootsHistoricalPostsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IExceptionalismAmerican Exceptionalism Author:Mohammad Marandi
“There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can - you've got all the footage, all the music, the various effects - and then you have to do the alchemy necessary to make it all good, a long and very key process of putting everything together and making it into the cogent thing that you want.” WantLongTogetherProcessEffectsKeysDirectorsProductionsVariousPostsIngredientsAlchemyPost Production Author:Fred Melamed
“Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm not being paid, so I can say whatever I want. I don't have to justify the cost of a book to readers; they get it for free, so expectations are naturally low. (And no one-star reviews!)” WayWantWritingI CanBookWholeStarsReaderCostLowsExpectationsPaidPostsJustifyEditorsReviewsNew WaysBlogs Author:Kate Christensen
“Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.” WellsBookPayPaidStealingMagazinesPostsEssaysBlogsPublicationBlogging Author:Kate Christensen
“9/11 was just an enormous event in so many senses of the word - I mean, we are still in the "post-9/11 era" and perhaps will be forever? Sometimes it seems like it. It was such a monstrous act of imagination over anything else - the actual fatalities, while awful, were not what distinguished the event from others.” MeanStillsSometimesSeemsImaginationForeverEventsSensesEnormousAwfulErasPostsDistinguishedMonstrousFatality Author:Porochista Khakpour
“I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience.” FirstsSidesSubjectsIndependentSlavePostsAncestryColonization Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“I just can't fathom tweeting, and I'd rather spend my time writing a book than a blog, but I rather grudgingly agreed to a Facebook page. I had a brief, intense romance with Facebook. It's weirdly addictive, but anything that time-sucking is a danger for a writer who writes as slowly as I do. Now I post only occasionally and nothing very confessional. I think I'm carbon dating myself as I speak.” ThinkingWritingBookRomanceSpeakDangerPagesDatingIntensePostsMy TimeCarbonBlogsWriting A BookFathomFacebook Page Author:Debra Dean
“The rise of the anti-hero can be traced to a litany of social reasons. Post World War I, for instance, saw the blooming of some pretty dark stuff - I'm thinking of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, for instance, when "The Continental Op" shows up in Poisonville to clean up the town...and proceeds to kill something like thirty people.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarReasonShowsSocialStuffDarkSawsHeroRedTownsCleanInstancePostsWar Of The WorldsThirtyWorld War IHarvestBloomingContinentalAnti Hero Author:Tod Goldberg
“The minute I landed back in Alaska, it was back to hip boots and fish guts. This cultural flipping wasn't easy - especially on top of the post-divorce fighting that was still going on between my parents. But this is why you don't write a memoir at age fourteen.” WritingStillsAgeFightingEasyParentMinutesFishesDivorceMemoirHipsPostsGutsBootsAlaskaFourteen Author:Leigh Newman