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 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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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'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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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.
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The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of consumption requires constant intervention into other people's lands. That's what's going on.
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I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.
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As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.
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'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It is not a liberty to anything - like the liberty to meaningfully contribute to public debate or to have ample spaces for speech.
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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.
