Bill Keller Quotes
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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When I'm not shooting, I go to school every day. When I am shooting, I have tutors on set helping me.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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The big mathematical challenge for flying robots is making them move in six dimensions: x, y, z, pitch, yaw and roll. We create 3-D obstacle courses in the lab - windows, doors, hula-hoops taped to posts - and ask the robots to fly through. It looks like a Harry Potter Quidditch match.
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A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
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I'm not that materialistic. I like nice clothes and that, but I don't spend lots of money on stuff. I'm not really into TV, I don't have an iPod, I've got a gramophone.
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I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.
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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
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Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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Shastriji had digested the message of the Gita. Some of us have memorised it in full and spout couplets from it at will. But I learnt of what it meant for someone to have actually digested it from Shastriji.
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I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
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Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.
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The accent today is on results, not on how well you work. You can't build a skyscraper in a day, but you can build a shack.
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Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.
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There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
