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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We don't have performances as big as 'Lemonade Mouth' on 'Zeke and Luther,' but they're both amazing experiences; just, 'Lemonade Mouth' was a bit bigger. It was different for me.
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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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Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
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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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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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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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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.
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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.
