Maynard Webb Quotes
I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.
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I'm cranky.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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Without literature my life would be miserable.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.
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I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.
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Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog.
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My mother and her five sisters have always been living examples of the great love that can exist among sisters - and in a large family.
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I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don't want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.
