Bill Joy Quotes
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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I can be a bit extreme. I'll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
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Being a parent is the toughest thing I've ever done. But I'm not the kind of person to throw my kid in front of a TV. I'm the one to take out a book, puzzle, or flash cards.
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Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.
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Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
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Nike came to me and said, 'We're interested in the decathlon and interested in seeing if we can help you get as close to 10,000 points as we can.'
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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.
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I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
