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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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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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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Our violent, narcissistic, noncommittal, “me first” culture is simply the logical and predictable expression of “truth” as a relative, subjective, unverifiable concept.
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Once you start ignoring all of that and believing, ‘I’m dope and it doesn’t matter for what or for who, I’m just fucking dope,’ then you start trying to transcend that.
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My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
