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Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes


An American historian, professor, attorney, and writer.
Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He was appointed twelfth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1975 until 1987.

Here are some famous quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

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Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

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Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

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A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.

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Some are born great some achieve greatness and some hire public relations officers.

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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

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Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

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The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscrupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived; less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.

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A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis celebrities live off each other.