John G. D. Clark Quotes
As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.
Quotes to Explore
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My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very young, but only for a brief while. I don't think she had a great teacher. In any case, neither of them were really into music at a young age.
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
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I know about raising money.
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Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
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Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.
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As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.
