Jef Raskin Quotes
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.
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As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.
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Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!
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Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
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I was embarrassed about modeling. When you're at school and you're modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn't want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn't want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
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World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
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We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pipeline for its nuclear ambitions.
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I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.
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My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to pursue.
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Friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other.
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The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.
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Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting.
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Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.
