Jeff Nichols Quotes
I'll be honest: 'Badlands' changed my life: it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
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My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary.
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That is the great contribution of Reformed thinking to the Christian church: theology for a life well-lived.
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There does seem to be a kind of split. There are those people who are more entrenched in the early electronic years, and new people who have come to it because of people like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.
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I'll be honest: 'Badlands' changed my life: it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.
