Jaron Lanier Quotes
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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The 77 cents that women make for every dollar men earn makes a real difference to our families - families stretching to make every dollar count.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.
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The King walks. He nods. His glance is like God's touch - under it all things spring to life. A wave of his hand and a hundred musicians tear into the Handel, making a sound you've never heard before, and never will again. A sound that goes through you, through flesh and bone, and reorders the very beat of your heart.
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I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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People know Detroit for the cars, but the suburban areas of the city are really beautiful. It's much more inhabitable than people think. Many believe it's like Berlin at the end of World War II.
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Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.