Jef Raskin Quotes
When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I like to go to Africa purely with something to do. I'm not very comfortable getting into an armor-plated Land Rover and going to see things, with my hand gel, you know, it's not me at all. So I like to hang out and you know, really get to know people and try and do something that resonates with them.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was Dax. Anyone that's roughly my age that's named Dax is named from that book.
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For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.
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Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.
