Ken Auletta Quotes

#1. The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

Ken Auletta

#2. We shouldn't demonize the woman who wears high heels and we shouldn't demonize the woman who doesn't wear high heels. We should accept all forms of comportment.

Laverne Cox

#3. Eating, drinking, and depression disorders are really thinking disorders.

Byron Katie

#4. The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds.

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#5. The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

#6. I had a happy childhood.

Alastair Campbell

#7. Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

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#8. An important reason Google is usually listed among the world's most trusted brands is that it conveys a sense that the user comes first.

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#9. If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.

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#10. Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

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#11. You at this time can only be destroyed by yourselves, from within and not from without. You have reached the point where the victory is to be won from within and can only be lost from within.

Marcus Garvey

#12. Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.

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#13. The importance of humility. We need the humility to know that truth can be ephemeral, that this can be but one version of the truth.

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#14. There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs come from Ivy League schools, as is true in much of corporate America and government.

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#15. Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

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#16. The seven things that make up the rainbow of India's development are India's strong and deep rooted family system, Agriculture-Animal development, India's Matru Shakti (women power), Natural Resources (Jal, Jameen, Jungle), Youth power, Vibrant Democracy and Knowledge.

Narendra Modi

#17. Passion without focus can lead you astray.

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#18. Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture.

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#19. Again Mosca felt she was up in the rafters, watching the mice. Little mouse, witless with fear. Running the wrong way. And here she was, just watching. Becoming a part of it by doing nothing.

Frances Hardinge

#20. There are those who believe a liberal or a conservative bias permeates the media. I don't. The operative press bias is one that favors conflict, not ideology, and it is lashed by a market-driven bias to boost ratings or circulation with more wow stories, more sizzle.

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#21. Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.

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#22. it in those days.

Ernest Hemingway,

#23. It's worth knowing who's going to whisper your name when everyone else is screaming.

Gregory Sherl

#24. Perhaps the biggest problem in journalism is the cult divide between journalists and corporate owners.

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#25. The CIA special unit that was searching for Osama bin Laden has been disbanded. So I guess, mission accomplished.

David Letterman

#26. Journalists prize independence - not teamwork.

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#27. The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

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#28. Perry was in charge of music; Asher, lighting, seating, and structures; and presiding the service was Elaine, who was, not suprisingly, a certified minister and wedding planner.

Wendy Wunder

#29. Adversity brings out a man's character.
Prosperity kills it.

Manoj Vaz

#30. You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.

Sabaa Tahir

#31. I will barnstorm American living rooms. Mainstream media will be unable to ignore me, but more importantly they will be unable to overlook the needs of average Americans in the run-up to the 2012 election.

Roseanne Barr

#32. Zuckerberg had the good sense to know both his own limitations and interests. He wanted an executive who would free him to do what he loved: code, and enhancing the Facebook platform.

Ken Auletta

#33. I think the press, which arguably was cowed by the (Bush) administration in the run-up to the war with Iraq, was certainly not cowed in covering the aftermath of Katrina.

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