Azcanais Quotes & Sayings

I'm normally not at a loss of words but I am a little taken aback by what you're wearing; it's a little different. — Joe Teti

Half of me knows too much to be carefree. But the other half knows enough to be grateful. — Susan Estrich

I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist. — James Sanborn

First is first, and second is nowhere. — Ian Stewart

I don't think there's any heroism anymore. The heroism has to be created out of the medium itself. Going back to the idea of television, all the current heros are sports heros because the medium creates the heros. There's nothing essentially heroic about being a good pitcher. — Robert Ashley

Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways, and were less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind, but the extra food did not translate into a better diet or more leisure. Rather, it translated into population explosions and pampered elites. The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud.2 Who was responsible? Neither kings, nor priests, nor merchants. The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa. — Yuval Noah Harari

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. — Thomas Frank

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens. — Anderson Cooper