Jaan Tallinn Quotes

It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.

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• I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Long
  • Job
  • Help

• Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • Water
  • Spring

• San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • City
  • Space
  • Sustainable

• Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Change
  • Beginning

• I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • Always
  • Literature
  • New

• The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Focus
  • Football

• I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Night
  • Understand

• If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, because I am a naturally introverted person, and I'm not exactly social. Occasionally I can get comfortable enough to talk, but I spend a lot of my days not talking, especially when I'm at home and not on tour.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Home
  • Weird
  • Exposure

• If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Song
  • Take

• I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Kind
  • See

• I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.

  

  Bai Ling
  • You
  • Chinese
  • Follow

• I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take it too seriously, it's like religion. You start to think it's the truth. But it's not the truth. It's just a way to get somewhere.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Truth
  • Religion

• After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • House
  • Control
  • New

• I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Family
  • Nasty
  • Size

• On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Baseball
  • Race
  • Decency

• I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Experience

• Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Energy
  • Concept
  • Anywhere

• I can't hide my feelings.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Feelings
  • Hide

• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Think
  • Mistake

• Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • You
  • Present
  • Gossip

• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Art

• It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
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