John Morgridge Quotes
I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.
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Every celebrity in the world, if their movie bombs or whatever, they hold their kid up on a magazine and say, 'I'm really a dad.'
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Reducing trade barriers with this key ally will go a long way toward increasing market access for American farmers, manufacturers and service providers.
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Being able to evolve great franchises over time is the foundation of world-class entertainment companies.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
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I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.
