Bill Joy Quotes

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• The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thinking

• There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Tradition
  • Anonymous
  • Ruined

• The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Different
  • Play
  • Acting

• If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Up
  • Home
  • Fun

• Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. Actually, if you follow a formula, you will probably end up with a bad movie.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Bad

• I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Life
  • Done
  • Water

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Opinion
  • Literature

• In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Character
  • Broken
  • Laws

• In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Free
  • Crime

• I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Up
  • Church
  • I Was Raised

• To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie writer. The prairie is in his voice, and it is his moral compass. It is his years spent in Waukegan, Illinois - later rechristened by Ray as 'Green Town' in many books and stories - that forever shaped him.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Good
  • Age
  • Forever

• I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Dark
  • Creation
  • Darkness

• Socrates, after all, could be an intensely annoying man, all the time questioning passers-by until they became exasperated.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Time
  • Man
  • Annoying

• I wanted to be an actor from a young age, but actually becoming one and seen the ugly side of the world does feel different and sometimes unwelcome. There are shallow, vapid, untalented people zombieing the streets of Hollywood, adding decadence and immorality to an already extravagant business.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Hope
  • Want

• The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Autumn

• Growing up, I was on film sets occasionally, when my dad was acting, so I got to run around and do odd jobs on films like 'Labyrinth' and others... I seemed destined to make films.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is.

  

  Charlotte Lamb
  • Important
  • Women
  • Romantic

• Ladies and gentlemen, there is evil in this world.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • World
  • Evil

• You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Good
  • Great
  • Care

• I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Problems
  • Escape
  • Demon

• The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

  

  Bill Joy