John Battelle Quotes
Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable.John Battelle
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I never thought I'd be an actor.
Zach LaVine -
I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.
Maika Monroe -
I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
Idina Menzel -
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey -
I like most any place if I have Internet access.
Tao Lin -
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Edmond de Goncourt
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.
Ed Begley, Jr. -
While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
Harold Pinter -
When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'
Venus Williams -
Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
Galen Rowell
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When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
Walter Russell Mead -
NSA surveillance is a complex subject - legally, technically and operationally.
Barton Gellman -
Everybody must have wished at some time that poetry were written by nice ordinary people instead of poets-and, in a better world, it may be; but in this world writers like Constance Carrier are the well oysters that don’t have the pearls.
Randall Jarrell -
What does it matter if China’s economy grows when there are no basic protections for its citizens?
Ai Weiwei -
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
Archibald MacLeish -
It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.
James Forrestal
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Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.
William Levy -
Creativity has got to start with humanity.
Marilyn Monroe -
We communists know only one possession that is sacred - the life of the working man, the life of the worker, his wife and his children. That is the only possession which is sacred so far as we are concerned, and it gives us the right to do anything and everything.
Leon Trotsky -
Love is the most potent cosmetic.
Saul Bellow -
At home, I had seven brothers, one sister. I sewed clothes for my sister's dolls although she was grown and gone away. I was a weirdo but didn't think I was a weirdo.
Philip Treacy -
Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable.
John Battelle