Nicholas Negroponte Quotes
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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I just think something about being in front of a live audience when you've finished a big dance that you've been working on for so long - I don't think anything can really beat that.
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I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
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It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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I don't want to use my platform to speak out against anybody. I'm a rock and roller. I play music for a living.
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It's not a religion, there's a real living God that wants to know you today and it's through Jesus Christ his son you can.
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We can all agree that the unexamined life is not worth living, but if all you're doing is examining, you're not living.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
