Jamie Zawinski Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
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If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.
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Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
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I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
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Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.
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I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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Why do tax havens exist? Because rich countries allow them to. If the U.S. came down on tax havens in the same way they come down on countries that trade with Iran and Cuba, we'd have no tax havens in the world.
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In any complex organism, brain formation and function must be controlled in part by genes.
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I know what the important things are in life. I know that just because I pretend to be someone else for two hours on the silver screen doesn't make me a better person than the next man. So, I mind all those things. Simple things.
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Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
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I love the Avengers movies and Iron Man and Captain America.
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Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.
