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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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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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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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?
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Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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We need to build an Argentina with zero poverty.
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How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
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History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
