Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes
I like files. I like editing a CSS file without necessarily having to edit an HTML file. I like fixing a problem by replacing a corrupted file with a clean one. Maybe I'm set in my ways, but I don't consider it a hardship to open a folder or replace a file.
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.
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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
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You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.
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I'm the most competitive person you'll ever meet.
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I love children. They're so much fun and I would have a blast spoiling them.
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One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.
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While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.
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The biggest deficit in terms of gender equality at Ozon lay in our IT department. So we made a decision, along with our key IT leaders, to remove all filters and systemically interview all the women who apply.
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We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
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I've not gotten so much stuff because I improvise in an audition, but I always feel like, if that's the case, the reason is because it wouldn't have worked out anyway with us working together.
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With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.
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I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
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Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
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Maxima superbia vel abjectio est maxima sui ignorantia.
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It takes a lot of weapons to do good works (as Richard the Lionhearted could have told us). And this is not just a Somali problem. We have poverty and deprivation in our own country. Try standing unarmed on a street corner in Compton handing out twenty-dollar bills and see how long you last.
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At this point I ceased argument with Lt. Goforth and shot him in the belly.
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When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.
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I'm not a conventional guy. I've never been a conventional guy.
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Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.
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If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.
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My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.
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I like files. I like editing a CSS file without necessarily having to edit an HTML file. I like fixing a problem by replacing a corrupted file with a clean one. Maybe I'm set in my ways, but I don't consider it a hardship to open a folder or replace a file.
