John Gruber Quotes
I don't consider ideas for apps all that valuable. It's the implementation of an idea that matters.John Gruber
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
Gary Hamel -
I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
Ira Sachs -
When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
Ted Naifeh -
I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack Obama -
I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously.
Paris Hilton -
Contrary to the macho culture of Mexico, both my grandmothers were very brave young widows. I was always very close to these hard-working, intelligent women.
Carlos Fuentes -
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
F. L. Lucas -
Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.
Wendy Cope -
I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.
Vince McMahon -
It's not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them thinks of them constantly.
Irene Dunne -
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
C. S. Lewis -
I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like, but I found some things that are close enough to infer that I am within my legal rights to enjoy seafood with whomever I choose.
John Mayer -
I'm a big fan of talking about God. Whether people believe in God or not, that's so fascinating. Or where you go when you die is fascinating.
Andy Grammer
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I love grilling. Grilling is an incredible way to keep healthy. And you can marinate both with a dry rub and also wet marinades. You can marinate juniper berry or a little bit of olive oil and some citrus and fresh herbs - all of that sort of stuff.
Curtis Stone -
Start with a premise and then somehow invert it.
William Wegman -
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
William Bridges -
The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.
Boris Sidis -
I don't consider ideas for apps all that valuable. It's the implementation of an idea that matters.
John Gruber