Joichi Ito Quotes
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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As a girl I wanted the Cyndi Lauper hairstyle, with the shaved side of the head, or the Sharon Stone perm from 'Total Recall.'
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like.
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Times have changed, but people don't change. That's why ON THE ROAD has never been irrelevant.
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The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
