Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes
For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.
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I enjoy being Jewish, but I'm an atheist... I hate fundamentalism in all its forms. Jews, Catholics, Baptists, I think they are all potty and capable of destroying the world.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down.
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What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
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I spend a lot of time meditating, which is something that I don't think most people know about me.
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After my neurosurgery, part of my brain was missing, and I had to deal with that. It wasn't the grey matter, but it was the gooey part dead center that makes key hormones and neurotransmitters.
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Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her grandmother, in a way that her grandmother could understand what she was saying.
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A script is only as good as the director who's making it.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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For my daughter I would suffer through a thousand divorces, a million uncomfortable phone calls, a trillion emotionally fraught text messages.
