Michael Arrington Quotes
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
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I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
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When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.
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There's fears in everyone's job. Ours are in the limelight, and people think we're incredibly privileged or nuts to do what we do for a living.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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I see you brought along your violent little girlfriend. What a nice surprise!" - Saint Dane (The Reality Bug)
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If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.
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The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it 'animal spirit.' And if people are feeling generally good about the future, they're more likely to spend money, to start new companies; companies are more likely to hire people, make investments.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.
