Biz Stone Quotes
I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.Biz Stone
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
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I'm a bit of a fashion magpie.
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I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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A person cries out against life because it's lonely, and because life's broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it, too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have - but very painful to the lips.
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I probably would have never made it through college without baseball, so I'm thankful for that. I really am proud that I got to play on that level.
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The liberal arts are the arts of communication and thinking. 'They are the arts indispensable to further learning, for they are the arts of reading, writing, speaking, listening, figuring.
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I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.
Biz Stone
