Quotes about "Social Media & Online Culture"

At times, I might have been too young; I might have been too naive at times and didn't understand who I really was to a whole culture. ”

I think a lot of times, when people who get a chance to meet me and be around me, they understand that I'm not the person that the media make me out to be. ”

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. ”

The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed. ”

The top 10 is really a media thing anyway unless you're the champion, but otherwise, it's always speculation. ”

I think cool originates with the jazz culture in the '40s. There was probably cool before that, but that's when people started talking about cool - Miles Davis and Charlie Parker and a bunch of other early, cool jazz folk. ”

The Internet is a container, not a substance. ”

Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating a visual bomb. In a way, he's chopped down two iconic buildings, and used our very truth imagery, to express himself. It's fascinating... I mean, dreadful. ”

The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library. ”

A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised. ”