John Knoll Quotes
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.
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Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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Let every man be true and every god a liar.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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It never cost a disciple anything to follow Jesus; to talk about cost when you are in love with anyone is an insult.
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The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.
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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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I would use sport as an escape from the pain of what was real. Instead of dealing with the pain, instead of being honest about the pain, instead of asking for help - if I had to do it differently, I would do it differently in that regard.
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In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.
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It's harder to get your second picture than it is to get your first one.
