John Battelle Quotes
The smart phone isn't a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery, bandwidth, and power. It distracts us from the world around us.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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I respect his decisions, but football without Messi is not football. It is very hard to imagine football without him.
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Korean nationalism has not only energized the North’s march to nuclear armament, but also exerted a growing appeal on people in the South - the ideological discourse of which republic has received even less attention than the North’s. The average American knows only that in the 1980s liberal democracy replaced authoritarianism here in South Korea.
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Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.
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The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.
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The whole world of publishing is moving to electronic, but when you put a poem on a screen and you increase the type size, the shape of a poem changes.
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The smart phone isn't a perfect device, as we all know. It forces the world into a tiny screen. It runs out of battery, bandwidth, and power. It distracts us from the world around us.
