Jan Chipchase Quotes
Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm cranky.
-
The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
-
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
-
My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
-
When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
-
I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
-
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
-
I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
-
I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
-
I have two sisters, and we are the best of friends.
-
I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
-
We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
-
Frankly, I don't understand the monthly magazines that continue to publish news that is two months old and which has already been reported on ad nauseam online, including on their own websites.
-
My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
-
I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing.
-
I'm living my life and I found a woman who I love.
-
I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
-
We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.
-
A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.
-
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
-
Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.
-
The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.
-
Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.
