Vannevar Bush Quotes
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I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and off.
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When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
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I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.
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I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.
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I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.
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Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
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I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
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I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.
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There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.
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I have never done any other job. I have sung in bands since I was 15. I left school completely unqualified. I have no other training.
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I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.
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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!
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Nine out of nine architects start with a sketch, and then they say, 'What should we make it out of?' I start from the bottom up - what should it be made out of - and then I worry about what should it look like. The material, the color of the material, the way it feels, and the way you respond to it is every bit as valid as the form or the shape.
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It is Earlier Than We Think.
