John Edgar Wideman Quotes
I don't have anybody living around me who has much of a sense of what I do. That's exactly what I like.
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.
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The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
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All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
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My father realizes that he did okay with me. He did the best he could.
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Cryptocurrencies will create a fifth protocol layer powering the next generation of the Internet.
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I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
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My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet.
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Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.
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Most of the film directors expect their actors to want to work fast.
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I wouldn't want to create the impression that I wouldn't like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future. But I'm not going to do anything violent to promote that. I'm going to do it through education.
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I like the idea of taking off like a bird.
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When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.
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I'm seeing myself as an outsider a little bit - definitely when I started the band. I knew what band's name meant and nobody else really did, so I'd be on stage every night and say, "Hello, we're Art Brut" - basically saying that we were rejects. But I mean, I didn't really sing, it did feel a bit like we were outsiders. It was a bit tongue-in-cheek when I first named the band that, but then we slowly turned into that - like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.
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… and the wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones … But those were Foreign Children and it really didn’t matter …
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For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.
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I don't have anybody living around me who has much of a sense of what I do. That's exactly what I like.
