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Aldous Huxley on Technodictators

6m 4s

"If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the ruled." - Aldous Huxley

Episodes

  • Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Carl Sagan on Extraterrestrials

    S1 E62 - 4m 50s

    "A literal reading of the Bible simply is a mistake; I mean it’s just wrong" - Carl Sagan on October 4, 1985, as told to Studs Terkel.

  • Richard Feynman on What It Means: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Richard Feynman on What It Means

    S1 E61 - 5m 31s

    "The key was somehow to know what was important and what was not important, what was exciting, because I can’t learn everything." - Richard Feynman in 1966

  • Buckminster Fuller on The Geodesic Life: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Buckminster Fuller on The Geodesic Life

    S1 E60 - 5m 46s

    "I must reorganize the environment of man by which then greater numbers of men can prosper." - Buckminster Fuller in 1965, as told to Studs Terkel

  • Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Dame Stephanie Shirley on Survival Code

    S1 E59 - 4m 43s

    "I have to make my life worth saving, and each day you spend as if it would be your last" - Dame Stephanie Shirley in 2010 from an oral history at the British Library.

  • Jane Goodall on Instinct: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Jane Goodall on Instinct

    S1 E58 - 5m 42s

    "Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan" - Jane Goodall, as told to Ira Flatow in 2002

  • Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Temple Grandin On Her Search Engine

    S1 E57 - 4m 31s

    "Everything in my mind works like a search engine set for the image function." - Temple Grandin in 2008, from an oral history at Colorado State University

  • Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Frank Lloyd Wright on Arrogance

    S1 E56 - 5m 22s

    “Any man who really has faith in himself will be dubbed arrogant by his fellows” - Frank Lloyd Wright in 1957, as told to Mike Wallace

  • Sally Ride on Dumb Questions: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Sally Ride on Dumb Questions

    S1 E55 - 6m 9s

    “I wish that there had been another woman on my flight. I think it would have been a lot easier.” - Sally Ride in 1983. Interviewed by Gloria Steinem.

  • Garrison Keillor on Humor: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Garrison Keillor on Humor

    S1 E54 - 5m 43s

    “My family was shocked when I came home with a volume of Hemingway … There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction.” - Garrison Keillor in 1994

  • Nina Simone on Shock: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Nina Simone on Shock

    S1 E53 - 5m 23s

    "I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed." - Nina Simone in July, 1968. Lilian Terry had a national radio show in Italy--everyone from Ray Charles to Duke Ellington appeared on her show--and there was one person she always wanted to interview: Nina Simone.

  • Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Kurt Vonnegut on Man-Eating Lampreys

    S1 E52 - 5m 44s

    In November 1970, Kurt Vonnegut walked into a class room at NYU. He was a guest speaker that day. He’d prepared some handwritten notes on what he wanted to say: there were his thoughts on the art of writing, his childhood, the death of his parents.

  • Bill Murray on Being Obnoxious: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Bill Murray on Being Obnoxious

    S1 E51 - 5m 57s

    "I‘m just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that’s what they pay me to do" - Bill Murray in October 1988. T.J. English was tasked with writing a profile of Bill Murray for Irish America magazine.

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