Daniel H. Wilson Quotes
Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.
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I'm just glad I've had these opportunities to be geeks in some really awesome movies.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that's when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.
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When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
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Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.
