Ad Astra Final Quote Quotes

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.
That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. ~ Cecil Castellucci

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product. ~ Bing Crosby

Ad astra per aspera- From the mud to the stars ~ Jessica Warman

Ad astra per alia porci (to the stars on the wings of a pig) ~ John Steinbeck

New media companies look remarkably like the old ones they aspire to replace: male, pale, and privileged. ~ Astra Taylor

The Kansas state motto, "Ad astra per aspera" - To the stars through difficulties. ~ Charles J. Shields

Ad astra per aspera. It's the Kansas state motto," he said to Roger and me, "To the stars through adversity ~ Morgan Matson

Macte virtute, sic itur ad astra.

("excellence is the way to the stars" - IX.641) ~ Virgil, Aeneid

MPAA. The idea that piracy is an effective form of resistance, a direct attack on the corporate empire, is confirmed by the reaction it has provoked: ~ Astra Taylor

How valiant to deny the importance of money when it is had in abundance. ~ Astra Taylor

What we need to do is take that inchoate sense that something isn't right and give it a structural component and the sense that things can be another way. ~ Astra Taylor

And of course the things that get the most attention online tend to be similar to those that succeeded under the old model. ~ Astra Taylor

One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity. ~ Astra Taylor

One thing I point out is, a lot of people tooting the horn of amateurism, actually, these people were professionals. Some are professors who are employed full time. Others are marketers or business consultants. ~ Astra Taylor

Flickr is no such thing, just as Google is not operating a library. They are commercial enterprises designed to maximize revenue, not defend political expression, preserve our collective heritage, or facilitate creativity, and the people who work there are private employees, not public servants.7 ~ Astra Taylor

A mole or defect on a person is supposed to be caused by a fairy nipping him before birth. A matted lock near the neck of a sleeping child is called an elflock and is the deed of a mischievous fairy ~ Astra Cielo

Also, after Examined Life was finished I found myself thinking about the way creative opportunities and distribution channels were shifting. Should I be showing my films in theaters or just think about getting them out online? There were other issues, too. ~ Astra Taylor

We've been criticizing these superficial aspects, like whether we are all more distracted. We really need to articulate a defense, a critique, that merges awareness of the technology with a more traditional, progressive, left-wing critique of the market. ~ Astra Taylor

Basically political economy - that you have to look at how funding structures shape the media landscape. You have to look at commercial interests, consolidation - the economy structures are experience. ~ Astra Taylor

Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly complicated, no one can understand it (especially not "moms," who are always invoked as the ultimate know-nothings, which is incredibly insulting to a whole lot of people). ~ Astra Taylor

One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free Press and other nonprofits who are trying to make the issue urgent and comprehensible. And Andre Blum's book Tubes is great on this topic. ~ Astra Taylor

A big factor is that the enthusiast camp's values are really rooted in Silicon Valley and in these supposedly new business models. But again, I think this such an interesting moment because things like the NSA revelations are really forcing people to recognize the connections between corporate and government surveillance. ~ Astra Taylor

All this stuff - about the materiality of the network, what it's made of, and how it works - should be part of a basic media literacy, because we depend on this technology for more and more aspects of our day-to-day lives. ~ Astra Taylor

Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

One consequence of this is that people are expected to make it on their own by chasing clicks or building a brand. What a diminished vision that is. ~ Astra Taylor

It was God's intention for the prick to be a tireless population-building tool. ~ Ad Hudler

One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with the Internet - that you're very adept at using the app on your phone - it doesn't mean you have any idea about how the Internet actually works. ~ Astra Taylor

I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren't going on that path. If amateurism is so great, why didn't you stay one? You have to look at the larger economy, a backdrop of unemployment; it's shitty out there. ~ Astra Taylor

Any form of betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final. ~ Ernest Hemingway,

Advertisers are happy to see the stuff they've branded out there for free, they don't care about scarcity, they want any message they're invested in to be shared and to be abundant and to be passed along. ~ Astra Taylor

There's something odd about telling people, artists, that they need to work for free to be pure while you're sitting there getting a salary that ultimately is paid by a generation of young people going deeply into debt for their education. ~ Astra Taylor

There's also the issue of tech titans throwing their weight around in Washington and lobbying. There was just a Reuters poll that reported that more than half of Americans are concerned that tech companies are "encroaching too much on their lives." That's pretty major, considering these companies were universally loved not that long ago. ~ Astra Taylor

I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but look at the whole discourse around "selling out," a concept people say is irrelevant because there's no more distinction between mainstream and underground, inside and outside (which I don't really believe, but that's another issue). ~ Astra Taylor

You were born to win. ~ Troy Clark

Failure starts a future success, if you become better. ~ Troy Clark

Technology and television didn't dictate one path or the other - it was civil society and public policy intervening in creating alternative funding models. So I think that's one of the questions for our time: do we want to intervene in this model or completely acquiesce and leave it to the unfettered, not-actually-that-free market? Neither path is inevitable. ~ Astra Taylor

Imagine you're watching '30 Rock' and an ad comes on, but you don't like it. With Hulu Ad Swap, you can actually click the button and trade out the ad. So for the first time ever, a consumer is in control of their ad experience. For us, it's a big win because users are able to take control of what they see. ~ Jason Kilar

We haven't developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is "public," but we just mean it's viewable online. Or we say it's "open," but we just mean it's accessible. I would like for us to think about terms critically and maybe change our vocabulary a bit. What if pubic actually meant publicly-funded, or social meant socialized. ~ Astra Taylor

I knew Jo would remember the evening as a success, though the details that created it would escape her. ~ Ad Hudler

Not to be to be a vulgar materialist or be too reductive, but all of that was completely absent from the conversation. Instead we were told it was a "revolutionary" moment, where these new tools would inevitably displace the old media dinosaur and that things would be democratized and wasn't it great we could all collaborate on these platforms. ~ Astra Taylor

There's this divergence out there between the very small and the very large with the middle disappearing. There is something paradoxical going on where there is this access and we can seek out things on the fringes, but that doesn't describe the overall reality, because the big are bigger than ever. ~ Astra Taylor

Pride is a great energizer for me. --Titus Ray, Chapter 1. ~ Luana Ehrlich

Every big dream begins with a little nap. ~ Yohann Dafeu

Giving people what they want reduces us to consumers instead of treating us like citizens, consumers who are on the prowl for the predictable and comfortable. What we want winds up being suspiciously like what we've already got, more of the same-the cultural equivalent of a warm bath. ~ Astra Taylor

I was shocked when I tried to articulate this to someone who had posted the film and asked them to remove it for a few months, and I actually told them that after that they could put it back up and they were just completely unwilling to compromise - you'd think I was Rupert Murdoch or something. ~ Astra Taylor

It's not just that we all as individuals should reevaluate our relationship with our devices - maybe you should, on a personal level - but in terms of balancing the micro and the macro and the personal and the structural, it's actually a bigger issue than you and your phone addiction. ~ Astra Taylor

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem. ~ Richard Dawkins

Whether you are in a toxic relationship, or you wish to make that 'final decision' which will change your life, you must not, at any cost, allow the time to pass while sitting idle. ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo

I'm waiting with baited breath to hear that silver tongue of yours. ~ Jodie B. Cooper

It is the journey, and if you don't stop to enjoy the little treats along the way you will go insane. ~ Ad Hudler

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it. ~ Ad Reinhardt

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. ~ Bruce Campbell

I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything. ~ Matt Roper

I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire. ~ David Ginola

I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality. ~ Ad Reinhardt

If you want success, then be your own success story. ~ Steven Cuoco

YouTube offers the best solution by running an ad before showing the video, but also offering a 'skip ad' button that you can click after five seconds to go directly to the video if you are not interested in the ad. Now, that's what I call consumer sovereignty! ~ Mark Skousen

There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final. ~ Phyllis Bottome

There was all this enthusiasm about amateurism and the idea that people could now just make videos in their bedroom, or blog news stories and share it online, and isn't this great? Now we can do it just for the love of it and not try to be professionals, corrupted by careerism. ~ Astra Taylor

I work for free all the time, as a writer but also as an activist. The decisions we have to make as individuals are really fraught but also can be really wonderful and we're all navigating this reality to the best of our abilities. But, again, I wanted to take a step back and look at the broader context. ~ Astra Taylor

I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves. ~ Astra Taylor

Upfronts are all about ad sales. ~ Bryan Fuller

I feel like we're stuck in the former mode of reacting because that's what gains traction in Washington. But I really believe we need a robust public good argument. Net neutrality is not just about creating the next Instagram or Farmville or whatever. ~ Astra Taylor

Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broadcasting. There was a point where TV was so beholden to commercial interest that people - civil society - actually rose up and said, "This is ridiculous: we have our soap-selling soap operas, cigarette-sponsored news broadcast; we have our rigged quiz shows - let's put some checks and balances here." ~ Astra Taylor

Listen to my story, this may be our last chance. ~ Tidus Final Fantasy X

Think there's a culture of Silicon Valley that seems to have the attitude that you can have it both ways, that you can be an insurgent but also, ultimately, it's paid for by advertising, when in fact advertising is totally retrograde. Now that's an industry we should be disrupting, and maybe you disrupt it by funding public media. None of this is technological destiny; there are only social choices. ~ Astra Taylor

Ted Cruz has been playing an ad about me that is so ridiculously false, no basis in fact. Take ad down, Ted. Biggest liar in politics. ~ Donald Trump

Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy. ~ Astra Taylor

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten. ~ William Bernbach

Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting. ~ Ad Reinhardt

When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing. ~ Paul Tsongas

One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites. ~ Astra Taylor

As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but I might suffer somehow if other people are being spied on and blocked from doing important work that might have a collective benefit down the road. The personal doesn't necessarily translate to the social. ~ Astra Taylor

For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those video gigs was that kids don't read as much news and basically need to be read to, which I found really problematic and kind of insulting. I thought, Isn't it just that you don't have any money and that's why you want me to make some crappy "content" for your website? ~ Astra Taylor

Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter. ~ Steven Cuoco

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I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign. ~ Gary Clark, Jr.

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad. ~ Hart Crane

To go from the vision that we would all be free to express ourselves creatively because our material needs were being met, to this reality where nobody has money, people are unemployed, and the machines are harnessed by the lucky guys who Facebook or Google and we're supposed to be happy just to contribute content to their site. ~ Astra Taylor

I think ad networks is an ongoing story. Federated was a chapter in that story, and it continues to write a new one. ~ John Battelle

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist. ~ Ad Reinhardt

I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it. ~ Terrence Howard

You are beyond the sky; so go there. ~ Steven Cuoco

Educated: no. Stupid: yes.
And when I say "stupid," I mean stupid fresh. ~ Ad-Rock

In the end, all or nothing will matter. ~ Jay Mark D. Saga-ad

Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth.
[Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam
Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.] ~ Ovid

My favorite Viagra ad, a Spanish-language print ad I saw some years ago, simply shows an image of the distinctive blue pill with the text "Un divorcio menos. Gracias, Pfizer." ("One less divorce. Thanks, Pfizer.") ~ Hanne Blank

If you have a good selling idea, your secretary can write your ad for you. ~ Morris Hite

When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since. ~ Dan DeCarlo

If you want to conquer the stress,anger and illusion of life, live in the moment, enjoy your breathing, count your blessings. ~ Bhimsen Sapkota

Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight ~ Laurie Nadel

In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything. ~ Ruth Reichl

You say good-bye, and you think you'll be free. But I'll be awaiting you, in your final destiny. ~ Haidji

We own the things that claim that we are theirs. ~ Jay Mark D. Saga-ad

When you had the dream, it looked big. So why quit when it's still small? ~ Emem Uko

I wanted to tell them that the reason they get hounded by their women is because they truly care about the world we live in, that they're the dispensers of the details that keep us human. ~ Ad Hudler

Therefore, you might end up, like be dead, with still having that notion of 'not giving up' in your mind. ~ Jay Mark D. Saga-ad

Every day is precious as none of us knows when or where our journey will end. ~ Ken Poirot

Coming up with a useful, meaningful quote is getting more and more challenging each day....and you can quote me on that. ~ Bobby Darnell

Even though the Bush campaign ad tells you that Afghanistan is a new democracy at the Olympics because of Bush's efforts, Afghanistan hasn't actually had an election. ~ Peter Schuyler