David Weinberger Quotes
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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That's what the sari is about. Everything is covered, yet a peep of an ankle can be a turn on for men.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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I'd like to work with Justin Bieber. He's talented and he's so young. I know what he's going through. I've lived what he's living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he might find it a worthwhile experience himself.
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The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.
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I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
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The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.
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History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
