Jaron Lanier Quotes
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.Jaron Lanier
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
Wale -
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz -
Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
Jack Nicklaus -
There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
Pam Bondi -
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
Kate Beckinsale
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
Sam Rockwell -
I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
Yara Shahidi -
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Walter Savage Landor -
All those things they say about a baby changing your perspective - it does!
Rachel Zoe -
I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more money than my brother, who worked at a start-up.
Verite -
We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
Zygmunt Bauman
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I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people that have this.' I like to see that someone's put a lot of labor into making something.
Adam Jones -
Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.
Paris Jackson -
I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.
Vera Farmiga -
At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.
Cameron Russell -
When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Me.
Hank Aaron
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Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.
L. Ron Hubbard -
If in any instances, wrong has been done by our forefathers to people of one colour, by dispossessing them of their soil, what better atonement is now in our power than that of making what is rightfully acquired a source of justice & of blessings to a people of another colour?
James Madison -
I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
Vivien Leigh -
What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
Bassem Youssef -
Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
Oswald Chambers -
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
Jaron Lanier