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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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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Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.
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I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.
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Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing.
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Here I am, this smart, bookish girl, and I have this biker-chick name.
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The new plastic idea thus correctly represents actual aesthetic relationships. To the modern artist, it is a natural consequence of all the plastic ideas of the past. This is particularly true of painting, which is the art least bound to contingencies. The picture can be a pure reflection of life in its deepest essence.
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Even though you picture Russians as stoic, their language is really poetic.
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It's harder to get your second picture than it is to get your first one.
