John Backus Quotes
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
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I try to make a really good spy movie, so the animation has to be good. 'Bot Seeks Bot' was one of my lighter and more playful ones, so it can survive not being visually told as well. I did have some issues with the quality of the inking on some of the animation, but a lot of that will only ever bother me.
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I overthink everything. I'm very keen there should be a positive outcome. I like to control outcomes. But you can't. That's what is nice about being an actor, that you work really hard and it pays off. But at the end of the day, for it to be any good, you have to let go. I'd like to be better at this in life.
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Much of my work has come from being lazy.
