Douglas Wilson Quotes
Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
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I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.
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When I was little, I saw the play Les Misérables on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen. So I went to my manager and told him I wanted to be in it. He asked me if I could sing, and I said no. I took one lesson and landed the role of Cosette in a national tour of the musical
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I'm realising now that I can't just blurt things out.
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Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.
