John Gruber Quotes
There are a lot of people I dislike in the world. I mean, a lot. I don't follow any of them on Twitter.John Gruber
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
Edith Piaf -
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
Adam Peaty -
People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.
Gail Devers -
When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
Irwin Thomas -
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
Lake Bell -
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
Ma Jun -
I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
Jack Ma -
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
Iain McGilchrist -
Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
Samantha Morton
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
J. August Richards -
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
Takeru Kobayashi -
I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
Tate Taylor -
Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
Kara Swisher -
There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
Mae Jemison
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Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon.
Sarah Paulson -
He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.
P. G. Wodehouse -
I consider myself a feminist living in a post-feminist era.
Kim Cattrall -
I never rehearse scenes with the whole ensemble, because I need to preserve some surprise. Instead, I work with the cast individually on their characters.
Arnaud Desplechin -
Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.
Carl Andreas Koefoed -
There are a lot of people I dislike in the world. I mean, a lot. I don't follow any of them on Twitter.
John Gruber