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We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking.... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?
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My friend Cassie is the sort of trendsetter they ought to hire over at People.... She had a Cuisinart and a schefflera when everyone else had a crèpe pan and a philodendron.
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Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.
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We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.
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If women can sleep their way to the top, how come they aren't there?
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Instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.
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In today's amphetamine world of news junkies, speed trumps thoughtfulness too often.
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I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.
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For ninety-one years, he did something remarkable. He stayed interested.
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It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through.
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When you live alone, you can be sure that the person who squeezed the toothpaste tube in the middle wasn't committing a hostile act.
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I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.
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Ellen Goodman
Born:
April 11, 1941
(age 83)
Bio:
Ellen Goodman is an American journalist and syndicated columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980. She is also a speaker and commentator.
Known for:
I know just what you mean (2000)
Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times (2004)
Value judgments (1993)
The origins of the Western legal tradition (1995)
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