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In 2012, I launched Andrew Zimmern's Canteen. Inspired by visits to street stalls and markets around the world, Andrew Zimmern's Canteen reflects the intersection of food and travel. Andrew Zimmern
Food Travel World Markets Visits Andrew Inspired Around Reflects Street Intersection
The power of pop culture stories should not be underestimated, and there is an enormous potential for inspirational stories that can have a positive, transformative effect on our lives. Anita Sarkeesian
Positive Inspirational Culture Power Enormous Our Our Lives Potential Underestimated Effect Stories Transformative Pop Should Pop Culture Lives
Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries. Anita Sarkeesian
Work Women Out Online Driven Participate Industries Women Are Just Being Happening Board Epidemic Across Harassment Gaming Who
I was frustrated with how academia tended to present feminist theory in disconnected or inaccessible ways. I wanted to try and bring a sociological feminist lens to the limited and limiting representations of women in the media and then share that with other young women of my generation. YouTube was the perfect medium. Anita Sarkeesian
Generation Women Try Young YouTube Other Medium Ways My Generation Perfect Share Academia Limited How Limiting Disconnected Feminist Wanted Frustrated Inaccessible Young Women Lens Then Theory Media Present Bring Sociological
We are witnessing a very slow and painful cultural shift. Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change. They believe games should continue to cater exclusively to young heterosexual men with ever more extreme virtual power fantasies. Anita Sarkeesian
Change Entitlement Slow Men Power Young Sense Gamers Believe Virtual Extreme Heterosexual Some More Cater Terrified Witnessing Continue Shift Male Cultural Very Fantasies Should Painful Games Deep Ever
There's a toxicity within gaming culture, and also in tech culture, that drives this misogynist hatred, this reactionary backlash against women who have anything to say, especially those who have critiques or who are feminists. Anita Sarkeesian
Culture Women Hatred Say Backlash Those Drives Also Reactionary Within Feminists Anything Against Gaming Who Tech
The notion that gaming was not for women rippled out into society, until we heard it not just from the games industry, but from our families, teachers and friends. As a consequence, I, like many women, had a complicated, love-hate relationship with gaming culture. Anita Sarkeesian
Relationship Culture Women Complicated Society Our Out Had Like Until Industry Heard Friends Families Just Love-Hate Love-Hate Relationship Notion Teachers Games Gaming Many Consequence
The time for invisible boundaries that guard the 'purity' of gaming as a niche subculture is over. The violent macho power fantasy will no longer define what gaming is all about. Anita Sarkeesian
Time Will Power Guard Define Macho About Purity Invisible Boundaries Longer Over Subculture Fantasy Gaming Niche Violent
Harassment is the background radiation of my life. It is a factor in every decision I make. Any time I tweet something or make a post, I'm always thinking about it. Anita Sarkeesian
Life Time Post Decision My Life Every Thinking Background About Something Factor Make Always Any Harassment Radiation Tweet
Games have a huge impact on our society because the media plays a role in helping to shape our attitudes. So it's not just fantasy. Anita Sarkeesian
Society Our Impact Shape Attitudes Because Huge Huge Impact Role Just Fantasy Games Helping Media Plays
It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure. Arthur C. Danto
Success Failure Impossible Like Him His Really
Parody is homage gone sour. Brendan Gill
Gone Parody Sour Homage
If it were better, it wouldn't be as good. Brendan Gill
Good Better Were
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. Brooks Atkinson
Education Knowledge College Men Thinking Vital College Education Poetry Recover Takes Most Learn Years Five
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know. Brooks Atkinson
People Responsibility Enjoy Thinking Everywhere Taking True Know Ordeal Them Spares Themselves Believing Things
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. Carl Clinton Van Doren
Man Sheep Wolves While Conformity Race Credulity
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. Carl Clinton Van Doren
Great Knowledge Learning Experience Power Own Imagination Brought Above Great Power Facts Sound His Subject Curious Task Whaling Literature Which Worked Much Actual
The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers. Carl Clinton Van Doren
Work Strange Mind Few Followers Had Mississippi Prairie Continue West Did Reports Fiction Which Region Land Explorers Popular Cooper Travellers
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to. Carl Clinton Van Doren
Write Yes Hard Harder
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. Carl Clinton Van Doren
Life Entertained Detail Brought Tending Generally Had Idealized Remote Readers Were Been Historical Familiar Being Succeeded Teach Who
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. Carl Clinton Van Doren
Rest Long First Run Writers Long Run Nowhere
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. Charles Lamb
Truth Latitude Teller Absolute Absolute Truth Allowed Tale Him Content Than Less
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. Charles Lamb
Legal Once Lawyers Suppose Were Children
Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. Charles Lamb
Gratitude You People Value Some People Nothing Gifts Some Knack Putting Real Thank Substantial Real Value Them Engage
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. Charles Lamb
Strength Man Weakness Child Credulity
I love to lose myself in other men's minds. Charles Lamb
Love Myself Men Lose Other Minds
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