Nicholas Negroponte Quotes
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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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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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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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In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage.
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We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
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I don't really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren't a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them.
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We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.
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I'm so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.
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I believe that, with anything in life, if you have the patience, desire and passion, you can do whatever you set your mind to.
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It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.
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I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys. Boys love their mothers whereas girls can be so mean to each other.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
