Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
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Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.
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If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?
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If golfers know they look good, they will play better. I think that is valid for men and women.
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I’m not a paper doll. Can’t make me what you want. You just build me up and tear me down. Enough’s enough. Go, leave me alone. Cut me down but I won’t fall. I’m not a paper doll.
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The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.
