The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you […], "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

To go to bed late, to rise late, to breakfast late, to dine late, and to visit late, is to be “quite the thing,” or in good English, which you may understand better than the first phrase, to be in the fashion.

After a slow start it became the thing to do; 'everyone went to see Pbi-Pbi, no one talked of anything but Pbi-Pbi[…]'

Cheek kissing is a French thing; you get used to it after a while.

Now I don't know how many of those male flight attendants are male lesbians -- you know... (Laughter) Well, it's a thing. I mean, there's a -- it's a -- there's a feminist professor down in Tampa who's discovered a male lesbian

Frequent statements of the kind “'Race' is not a thing”, “'races,' put simply, do not exist”, “'race' (as each essay subtly shows) simply does not exist” aim to discredit Todorov's claim that a relapse to an ontology of race is at place […]

Clémence would say that his style was normcore before normcore became a thing. She had to admit that she still found him attractive.

Conservative philosophy, in other words, is, as we say now, a thing and deserves a serious listen.

Could you get me a thing of apple juice at the store?

And he invited us all in there and then he kicked the girls out a little bit later and brought me in a couple things of alcohol. And just before he brought in my second bottle of alcohol[…]

I remember my friend Ben saying in the old days that he would never go to Costco and buy one of those big things of toilet paper[…]

I came home and ate a whole thing of ice cream.

The car looks cheap, but the thing is, I have doubts about its safety.

That's the thing: we don't know where he is.

she's a funny old thing, but her heart's in the right place

Oh yeah, I'm supposed to promote that vision thing.

Don’t forget to have Gomez postpone that shooting thing. (in reference to the execution of Fernandez)

The Internet isn't my thing. I so much rather talk on the phone.

let me do my thing; I'm here doing my thing

But I'm just a guy from Missoula, Montana, doing my thing, going down the road like everybody else.

In accordance with Old Germanic custom men came to the thing fully armed, …

The goðar seem both to have received payment of thing-fararkaup from those who stayed home and at the same time compensated those who went to the thing, and it cannot be seen whether they had any profit from these transactions.

All Icelandic things were skap-thing, meaning that they were governed by established procedure and met at regular legally designated intevals at predetermined meeting places.

I can screw you in front of everyone. I don't care, we have a thing going on, you know. I love you,” she said.

Are John and Jennifer a thing again? I thought they broke up.

if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging

if you want a thing done well, do it yourself

when you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging

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