Walt Mossberg Quotes
Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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My songs don't deal with locations that specifically, even if there are very specific references to them in there; they're sort of just where stories happen, not the stories themselves.
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Ever since I was a kid, I dreamed about working in the theater.
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Science fiction is a unique literature. Science fiction is the first literature that says, 'Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.'
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Democracy is not just about voting but about informed voting. If democracy doesn't have access to reliable sources of information and instead relies on social proof, then there is no way of distinguishing between junk evidence and actual knowledge.
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Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.
