David Weinberger Quotes
Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.
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Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.
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The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
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I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.
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Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And then, I got a call about a week after I had submitted my tape, just saying, "They really like you and want to screen test you." So, I flew to L.A. and did the screen test. And then, I met Elijah [Wood] and did a screen test with him. And then, I had a very nerve-wracking few days back home, waiting and waiting and thinking, "This cannot possibly go my way because that would just be too good to be true." And then, it did.
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The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it.
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Knowledge in the Internet Age - networked knowledge - is becoming more like what knowledge has been in the past few hundreds years for scientists: it's provisional; it's a hypothesis that is waiting to be disproved.
