David Weinberger Quotes
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
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I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.
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Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.
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If China wants to spend $10 producing a product and sell it for a buck, who benefits from that? I think we do. I'm the free market guy. I think free markets work.
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I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.
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What God hath wrought?
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'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
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I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it.
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Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
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I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.
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The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.
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I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
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All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.
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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
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The cure to information overload is more information.
