Walt Mossberg Quotes
I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Since its very inception, Israel has been a threat.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating.
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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people.
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People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
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I didn't aim at anything except good music.
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I'm a third-generation Miamian. I'm fond of it. I'm an expatriate, so it's the only American city I can still legitimately claim.
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What is problematic about Obamacare is that it is killing millions of jobs in this country and has killed millions of jobs. It has forced millions of people into part time work. It has caused millions of people to lose their insurance, to lose their doctors, and to face skyrocketing insurance premiums. That is unacceptable.
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I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.
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YouTube was really good for building a kind of core, loyal fanbase. I didn't want to be a YouTube artist as such. I mean, there are people who are able to release albums and live off YouTube, but I felt - and not in an arrogant way - that I could be commercial and credible if I really put my mind to it.
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I felt like I was cheated out of my career in the UFC. In my mind and in my heart, I never lost to a foe. I never lost to an opponent. I lost to diverticulitis. That was my opponent that beat me. A lot of other people might have other thoughts about that.
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I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.
