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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I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.
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To do what you wanna do, to leave a mark - in a way that you think is important and lasting - that's a life well-lived.
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Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.
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Think of an abstract painting as very, very low relief - a thing, not a picture.
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I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?
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On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.
