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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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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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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I've always been unhappy with my teeth. I've lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those in the upper jaw have been screwed in or capped. As a result, I've got great hollows under my cheeks, and my bone structure seems accentuated.
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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?
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If I am right, Thy grace import Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way!
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
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The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.
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If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories
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Ethical obligation has to subordinate itself to the totalitarian nature of war.
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There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
