John Gruber Quotes
It was very deliberate that Daring Fireball wasn't defined as a Mac site or an Apple site, and this was fortuitous.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.
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The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance.
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I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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We've got to stop pandering and start leading.
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I always want to improve.
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I die wearing a bootie for three hours. I'm like, get these off of me!
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The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
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I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.
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'Moonlight' isn't an issue film. It's not about addiction, it's not about sexuality, it's not about identity. It's about all these different layers, because they are all a part of the character.
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The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
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Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
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A lot of my female fans discovered me through the passion I have for bettering myself. Not to say the dudes don't, but my female fan-base is based off women who want to do better.
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As a former economy minister, I can't not think about economic growth. The central bank should also think about this but through its own instruments.
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Thinking about death makes you analyse what life is. Anxiety makes you curious, and curiosity leads to understanding. I wouldn't be a writer without depression.
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The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.
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Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.
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Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.
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It was very deliberate that Daring Fireball wasn't defined as a Mac site or an Apple site, and this was fortuitous.
