Kris Holden-Ried Quotes
I actually did want to be an actor when I was younger, but my father didn't want to hear anything about it. And you know what? I went with his decision. I said, 'Yeah, maybe you're right. I don't know anything about acting.'
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.
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I was rubbish at school.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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I think the occasional appearance of the UFO is a very oblique pop-cultural reference that anyone who was alive and sentient in the late 1970s will get right away.
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I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.
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My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'
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You are the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the teacher and the guide for the soul that has been placed in your trust.
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I think I'd fall for you no matter what, Claire. You're kind of awesome.
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I actually did want to be an actor when I was younger, but my father didn't want to hear anything about it. And you know what? I went with his decision. I said, 'Yeah, maybe you're right. I don't know anything about acting.'
