W. Daniel Hillis Quotes

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• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

  

  Ted Williams
  • God
  • You
  • Own

• American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.

  

  Imelda May
  • American
  • Band
  • Brilliant

• I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • May
  • Help

• I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Me
  • Jesus
  • Spirit

• I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Work
  • Workout
  • Between

• You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Love
  • Want
  • Everyday

• I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Heart
  • Always
  • Denial

• Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Films

• I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Good
  • Man
  • Trump

• Everything I do now is a first.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • First
  • Everything
  • Now

• I like very much to put on fashion shows.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • Shows

• Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Women
  • Problem

• Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Friends
  • Age

• I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.

  

  Larry David
  • Night
  • Place
  • Fish

• When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Support
  • Christian
  • Roots

• I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• Much is missed if we have eyes only for the bright colors. Nature should be viewed without distinction... She makes no choice herself; everything that happens has equal significance. Nothing can be dispensed with. This is a common mistake that many people make: They think that half of nature can be destroyed - the uncomfortable half - while still retaining the acceptable and the pleasing side.

  

  Eliot Porter
  • Nature
  • Mistake
  • Destroyed

• I don't think the ongoing negotiations with the Taliban will yield a positive result

  

  Aitzaz Ahsan
  • Result
  • Negotiations
  • Taliban

• Progressivism is a spectrum; it’s not an ideology following one leader saying one thing. It’s many people who have very wildly diverging opinions about many things. But, as progressives, if we could commit to a general frame of reference that we are about improving the quality of life for a lot more people, we’re about helping working and middle-class people, and we’re about taking care of poor people, we could really make some inroads in political power in this country. But, if we choose to be purists, if we choose to be arguing for a consensus we will never reach, for agreement on every point, it’s never going to happen.

  

  Urvashi Vaid
  • People
  • Power
  • Political

• We don't believe the market can be dominated by one company in e-commerce in China - namely Alibaba. The Chinese market is very wide and deep, with a huge population.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Believe
  • Deep
  • Company

• The normal routine is always the same thing whether it's on a new movie or a new job - there's always a process of getting to know one another. I think part of what makes movies special is that it is a relatively intimate environment and it's pretty short-lived - you get to know one another very quickly.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • Job
  • Environment
  • Movies

• Building a computer out of any technology requires a large supply of only two kinds of elements: switches and connectors.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • Building
  • Computer
  • Switches