You can get bored up there on stage, night after night. But it’s an open forum where you can get away with almost anything, so you might as well do it.
In June 1972, I went with friends to see the Rolling Stones at the Los Angeles Forum. After the concert, as we crossed through the parking lot, a guy in a brown Mercedes stopped in the middle of the street and got out. He came up to me and asked if I had ever modeled.
Philosophy is not just about talking or lecturing or even reading long, dense books. In fact, it is something men and women of action use – and have used throughout history – to solve their problems and achieve their greatest triumphs. Not in the classroom but on the battlefield, in the forum, and at court.
You shouldn’t have an overbearing FCC. Let the market work itself. By allowing companies to compete in an unregulated forum, you’re going to allow the faster deployment of new services and new equipment consumers are going to want.
A new forum is needed that reflects the realities of today’s globalised world and the rising importance of emerging markets.
But what I will do is I’ll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am.
I like to peruse the Full Contact Poker online forums to read and comment on posts about interesting poker hands and whether they were played properly. I find that many of the contributors consistently suffer from the same problem: they are far too preoccupied with statistically insignificant aspects of a poker hand.
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
I work in a public forum, and all I can do is say what I honestly feel.
I’m accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.
The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn’t want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.
There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
Like a physical body, a body politic must have an immune system that resists anti-Semitism and other forums of hatred.
My favorite way to do business is the Landmark Education Forum.
The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings.
You have to test your ideas in a public forum.
Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.
It is an intellectual and moral vacuity that has crippled what the World Social Forum’s founders sincerely hoped would produce some sort of democratic alternative to what they saw as the heartless corporate model of globalization.
My favorite conference so far has been Davos, the World Economic Forum. The people there were really incredible.
I’ve been online since 1989; I was sysop on several CompuServe forums.
Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.
From the Americans, I took the meet-up platform, from Howard Dean. He used it to gather money. I use it to gather information, to gather forums, not money. This we copied from the United States, the use of the Internet.
Film Club is a necessity in any big university, as it provides a platform and a forum where you can exchange ideas, critique and appreciate historical, classics and contemporary films.
The editorial page is where you’ll find our opinions, while the letters columns and the space for Op-Ed contributors are a forum for debate and discussion.
What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it’s the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who’s going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?
There’s this group online that I frequent. It’s a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it’s people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
America’s Founders were committed to a wide-open public forum in which all voices and perspectives could have a chance of being heard.
There is a directory where you can explore every single person who has gone through YC and a private forum that only founders can participate in.
I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women’s health care and education, and I’d dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
I like the idea of a Citizen’s Assembly that has been used in Ireland, providing a forum in which to discuss the nuances of an issue before deciding if and how it should be put to the people.
My first introduction to South Africa’s struggle for freedom came when I was just 17. I had volunteered to speak in my mother’s stead at a United Nations forum on South Africa because she was unable to attend on that occasion.
WWE definitely gives you the forum, the stage to do different things and see what works. That’s the cool thing about being in front of a live audience every single week in WWE. You get instant feedback.
Pages: 1 2
