David Weinberger Quotes

I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.

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• You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • You
  • Look
  • Clever

• I'm a pretty chill and easygoing person; most people in Australia are, as well. I don't think I ever really saw a lot of fights growing up. I think it's hard to get people in Australia angry and want to fight, minus one or two people in the media... but we won't say any names.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Always

• I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • Family
  • Funny

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Giving
  • Freedom

• If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Up
  • Today
  • Motivational

• The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Person

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Up
  • Why
  • Home

• I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• I did a whole lot of work before taking up my first movie. From TV commercials to Telugu films, I learnt a lot from them all.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Up
  • Work
  • Movie

• What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Want

• There are so many problems in the E.U. that several countries are warming up to the idea that after the single currency, a deeper integration could also be created.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Single
  • Idea

• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Fighting
  • Creating
  • Method

• I'm a guy of 92kg. I haven't got the physique of someone who can work back and then sprint up front again throughout a match!

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Up
  • Work
  • Guy

• When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Am I good enough to be No. 1? Sure, but who's gonna break Tiger's legs? I want to be the best. Can I? Oh, believe me, I will be trying. Hard. You grow up in Colombia, and everything is limited. Then, I come here, and you have everything. A trainer, nutritionist, coach. I'm very lucky. Many doors open, and I have a path to take.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• The idea of being in the State Department was exciting. On the other hand, I always had in the back of my mind going into politics. If I stayed in Washington, I might end up a government hack.

  

  Elliot Richardson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Hand

• My style icons are Lucille Ball for her bouffant hair and all the updos, James Dean for his rockabilly style - the denim and rolled-up T-shirt thing. And I am also inspired by Dita Von Teese and Gwen Stefani. Their style is retro, but it's still very feminine at the same time.

  

  Andra Day
  • Up
  • Time
  • Style

• When I act, I don't even know there's a camera there, don't care.

  

  Chris Penn

• You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

  

  Christopher Reeve
  • Up
  • Responsibility
  • Present

• Don't lose sight of the essential objectives of painting, which are expression, emotion, delectation; to understand the means, to paint decoratively, to exalt form and color.

  

  Maurice Denis
  • Painting
  • Color

• I've learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that's inverse of the normal campaign.

  

  David Weinberger
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Control