Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

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• I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Just

• Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Right
  • Something
  • Wrong

• I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Need
  • Involved
  • Charities

• I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Attitude
  • Creative
  • Haircut

• If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Powerful
  • Poverty
  • Company

• There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • May
  • Together
  • Day

• My big downfall is deep-dish pizza from Chicago. That is why I can't go vegan - I can't give up cheese. I can't give up dairy.

  

  Parvesh Cheena
  • Up
  • Why
  • Deep

• I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Yoga

• Edward Smith: What do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others.Andy Warhol: Ummm, well, if they talk a lot.Edward Smith: What, and don't make you talk?Andy Warhol: Yeah, yes, that's a really nice person.Edward Smith: Thank you, Andy.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • People
  • Nice

• We don’t forgive being as we are.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I was very happy. I thought I would cut my way through life.. ..victory after victory, laughing.. Well, I adjusted as soon as they carried me into my mother. Half of my victories fell to the ground.. she pauses ..My mother had victories. her candid, weather-beaten face darkens abruptly

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Life
  • She
  • Happy

• Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Children
  • Happiness
  • Laughter

• I'm Santa Claus to these hoes without a reindeer.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Bragging
  • Santa
  • Hoe

• Among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other, and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.

  

  Alexander Grothendieck
  • Structure
  • Fascinated
  • Mathematical

• We are very confident about the long-term outlook for our business, but believe that the immediate impact will be a further weakening in the operating environment and a delay in the economic recovery, ... However, given increased fiscal and monetary stimulus, we anticipate that long-term economic recovery should be more certain and vigorous than previously expected.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Business

• Nothing is stronger than the will of the human heart.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Heart
  • Stronger
  • Human Heart

• As a result of that, and as a result of friendship, I don't think we've ever been competitive. I mean, there's probably a very good reason Hunter [S. Thompson] isn't jealous of me.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• I'll never lose the sense of being an underdog.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Lose
  • Sense Of Being

• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • New York

• It makes no sense to ship atoms when you can ship bits.

  

  Nicholas Negroponte
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