David Foster Wallace Quotes
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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We should all love animals.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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People need to differentiate us from companies like Yahoo! and Facebook that collect your data and have it sitting on their servers. We want to know as little about our users as possible.
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Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.
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I feel good about how we're trying to get better defensively.
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If the light isIt is because God said 'Let there be light.'
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A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.
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What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.
