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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History is on the side of the regulators.
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There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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In America, they have specialist mystery book stores with whole sections devoted to cat mysteries, golf mysteries, quilting mysteries. It's a hugely broad genre from the darkest noir to tales of a 19th-century vet who solves crimes, thanks to his talking cat.
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When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.
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History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.
