John Landgraf Quotes
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
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In my own life, I've seen myself ramping up the amount of text I consume digitally. For me, it's the weight and inconvenience issue – I want anything that will spare me having to carry around reams of paper.
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My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
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From the day he took office, President Obama has been open to any good idea when it comes to the budget, as long as supporting middle-class families remains our North Star. Republicans won't extract concessions over the full faith and credit of the United States.
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I want to go skydiving. I'd love to go to the Galapagos. Nature still excites me.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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There is failure in every industry; there is failure in every step. It's just that we are working in an industry where everything is just out there; that is why it looks so magnified. But failure is a part of life.
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Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.
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I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
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We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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I was famous from birth.
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But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.
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If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will -the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.
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Conclusions I. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of standard deviations of samples drawn from a normal population. II. A curve has been found representing the frequency distribution of values of the means of such samples, when these values are measured from the mean of the population in terms of the standard deviation of the sample... III. Tables are given by which it can be judged whether a series of experiments, however short, have given a result which conforms to any required standard of accuracy or whether it is necessary to continue the investigation.
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Was there ever anyone more ill-suited for being the showman of the year than me?
