Walt Mossberg Quotes
Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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Shallow communities are relatively easy to build.
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My salary is converted to bitcoin, and taxes are taken out. You have to do all the tax computations in dollars because the IRS does not deal in bitcoins.
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Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.
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It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.
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I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.
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In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
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It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy.
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In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
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The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
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And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
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Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.
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The plot of my 'Phantom' is pretty much mine. It's based on the Gaston Leroux book - I've taken a lot of liberties with it.
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A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.
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Good government is one of the most important factors in economic growth and social well-being.
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I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
