#mono

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#facto #goes #heads #into #monopoly

Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#art #claim #dealing #developer #event

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. ↗

— Truman Capote

#conversations #dialogue #due #few #good

The first Monopoly game I played with my brothers, I hated losing so much, I just had to beat them. ↗

— Drew Carey

#brothers #first #game #had #hated

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! ↗

— Coco Chanel

#leaves #love #monotony #other #time

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did. ↗

— Sally Field

#cut #dialogue #did #felt #i

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#enthusiasm #faith #good #good faith #monopoly

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love. Other people are paying to watch us kissing someone, touching someone, doing things people in a normal monogamous relationship would never do with anyone who's not their partner. It's really kind of gross. ↗

— Megan Fox

#anyone #attraction #doing #feign #get

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. ↗

— John Hope Franklin

#appreciate #begin #better #better world #country

After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated. ↗

— John Griffin Carlisle

#allowed #asked #bloated #calmly #fat