Nancy Duarte Quotes
Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
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Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
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I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.'
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Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.
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In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.
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Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG?Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature.
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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
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I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.
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Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.
