Paul Allen Quotes

There’s going to be reversals. You have to be ready, to be philosophical about that.

Paul Allen

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• Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

  

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• A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.

  

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• Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

  

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• I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.

  

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• I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.

  

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• Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

  

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• I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

  

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• Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.

  

  Yolandi Visser
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• Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
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• So grand a structure cannot be purely and simply a tomb.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• It is arrogance in us to call frankness, fairness and chivalry 'masculine' when we see them in a woman; it is arrogance in them, to describe a man's sensitiveness or tact or tenderness as 'feminine'.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• Dorothy looked, and gave a little cry of fright. There, indeed, just under the corner of the great beam the house rested on, two feet were sticking out, shod in silver shoes with pointed toes.

  

  L. Frank Baum
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• And now the sagacious reader, who is capable of reading into these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception of the serious feelings with which I then set foot in Emmendingen.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebookBecause my hand thinks I'm an artistBut my heart knows I'm a poetIt's just words they mean so little to me.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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• A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future, a party whose leaders are inclined to shoot from the hip, a party that has never been willing to put its investment in human beings who are below them in economic and social status.

  

  Jimmy Carter
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• That day in Moscow, it will all come true, when, for the last time, I take my leave, And hasten to the heights that I have longed for, Leaving my shadow still to be with you.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
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• When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

  

  Donald Dunn
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• I worked at Barney's selling clothes to lonely, rich white women. Every time I would look down on myself - hating my job, hating my life - I would think, 'It's a character study. Study these people, and you'll have your SNL audition ready in, like, five minutes.'

  

  Brandon Uranowitz
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• Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions.

  

  Francis Bacon
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• Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do not.

  

  Elliott Sober
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• 'Malays abhor the state of celibacy. To remain unmarried was and is considered shameful. Everyone must be married at some time or other. The result

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
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• Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

  

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• I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston

• There’s going to be reversals. You have to be ready, to be philosophical about that.

  

  Paul Allen
  • Philosophical