Kurt Andersen Quotes
I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting India's diversity.
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I'm one of those pianists who tends to ignore every existing recording and lots of traditions about playing pieces when I start.
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I think the first general point to make from epidemiological studies across millions of people is the following - that short sleep predicts a shorter life. It predicts all cause mortality.
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I'll say anything to live.
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It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?
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I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.
