Daniel Suarez Quotes
We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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They say that it were great reproof to the king to take again what he has given, so that they will not suffer him to have his own good, nor land, nor forfeiture, nor any other good but they ask it from him, or else they take bribes of others to get it for him.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.
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I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul.
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People can lie in letters, but they tend not to. They certainly lie in memoirs.
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Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.
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I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.
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We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.
