Paul Graham Quotes
The best thing software can be is easy, but the way to do this is to get the defaults right, not to limit users' choices.
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I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife.
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The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the base of where I start off as a performer.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
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The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
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I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.
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All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.
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There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.
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The idea of the live-virus vaccine is to produce in a continuous way some viral antigens.
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There's a level of service that we could provide when we're just at Harvard that we can't provide for all of the colleges, and there's a level of service that we can provide when we're a college network that we wouldn't be able to provide if we went to other types of things.
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I find my vocabulary is quite a lot better when I'm hungover. I feel like I unlock a key of words that I don't usually use in day-to-day life.
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You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.
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Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.
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It is not that we have a soul, we are a soul.
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If you're big at school, you've really got two choices. You're going to be a target. If you go to school, and you're me, you go, 'Right - I'm just going to make myself a bigger target. My confidence, it will terrify them.' That's how I felt in school.
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I think Amazon is the greatest start-up and the greatest company in the world. The way they are using new technologies is not just disrupting retail, it's getting ready to disrupt everything.
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Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
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I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.
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The best thing software can be is easy, but the way to do this is to get the defaults right, not to limit users' choices.
