John Battelle Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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The Florida Jewish community is incredibly important in the primary and will be that important in the general election as well.
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As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.
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I'll never forget the first time... I got a Blackberry smartphone, and I'm playing with it and I'm going, 'This is really important because my email, my contacts, my calendar. Everything is here and it's synced up with that computer. It's synced up with my assistant's computer.'
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.
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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he's super sharp.
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Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
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In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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When I was in college, my brother, B.R. Chopra, who is everything to me, was a director in Bombay. He taught me filmmaking. What I am today is because of him.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
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One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
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Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.
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There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.
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Where there's a lack of competition - as we saw with Mylan Pharmaceutical's virtual monopoly on EpiPen - price increases often follow.
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You can dream big and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from.
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Google+ was, to my mind, all about creating a first-party data connection between Google most important services - search, mail, YouTube, Android/Play, and apps.
