David Weinberger Quotes
We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.
Quotes to Explore
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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One of the trickiest things about 'Game of Thrones' is just seeding those first couple of episodes with that basic information that people need to know, both about the world and the ground rules of the world, and the relationships between the characters, as far as who means what to whom and why.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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Historically, Vietnam movies have been profitable. All of them. 'Platoon,' 'Full Metal Jacket,' 'Apocalypse Now,' 'The Deer Hunter.' You're looking at movies that have been not pretty successful, but very successful. The foreign numbers have been extraordinary.
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I don't read 'Vanity Fair,' whose millionaire-fashionista-liberal shtick I find repellent.
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Life for me has always been about timing, and it was bad timing for that disease to hit me; it was time to exit stage.
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When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
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I would love to work on a Bond film.
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We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.
