Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes
On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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No man may make another free.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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New York's got a little rougher edge to it than Chicago.
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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.
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I grew up in a close-knit community where I was expected to excel, and it was a different experience when I got to the university. There were very few students of color, and those numbers were extremely low in the school of engineering.
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My parents had met in high school and married right after my father came back from World War II. They honeymooned in Paris and returned to that city when my father, in college on the G.I. Bill, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.
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On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.
