#disco

During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#came #career #created #disco #during

I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#am #crowned #discarded #discontinued #efforts

It's discouraging for me to come out there and watch the lack of fan support for a good team. ↗

— Jerry West

#discouraging #fan #good #lack #me

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#camps #concentration #die #discovered #everyone

Discovering witnesses is just as important as catching criminals. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#criminals #discovering #important #just #witnesses

Disco deserved a better name, a beautiful name because it was a beautiful art form. It made the consumer beautiful. The consumer was the star. ↗

— Barry White

#art form #beautiful #beautiful art #because #better

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#attitude #change #changing #discovery #future

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument. ↗

— Justin Winsor

#august #blunder #character #discovery #hardly

It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#contradiction #discovered #during #effect #exposed

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge? ↗

— Neil Postman

#ignorance #knowledge #media #nate-silver #opinions