Bre Pettis Quotes
One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community.
Quotes to Explore
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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I love anything that makes you feel empowered. I'm 'bout that - you can't be scared.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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I have a cat named Dandelion.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have - 'What's going to happen to your child if you're not around?'
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Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
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Proue thy fréende er thou haue néede, but in déede A fréende is neuer knoen tyll a man haue néede.
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Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.
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The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.
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I am happier now than I have ever been.
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One of the criticisms we get is, 'Does the world need more plastic crap?' But you have to look beyond the plastic crap, to the design, to the experience, to the empowering nature of the MakerBot and the community.
