Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

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• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Water

• I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel like you can pick your player. 'I'm the most like Gambit... or I'm totally a Storm.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Men
  • Like
  • Player

• I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Children
  • Think
  • Fat

• The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Free
  • Free Will

• For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Gay
  • Retirement
  • Lesbian

• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Night
  • Need
  • Friday

• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Business
  • Me
  • Islam

• There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Reality
  • Cutting
  • Gun

• The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Know
  • Heartbeat
  • Clumsy

• I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Amazing
  • Fashion
  • Revolution

• New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • New
  • Construction
  • Glass

• These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Done
  • Me

• I've always found the rain very calming.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Always
  • Rain
  • Very

• The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Value
  • Artist

• I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Nice
  • Funeral

• I used to play with model trains when I was a kid, and then I used to study history.

  

  Alan Taylor
  • History
  • Study
  • Model

• I dreamed about this as a kid, that I would write - and people would read - a whole series of books. I feel accomplished, giddy, and tired. Mostly, though, I feel thankful. A trilogy is a huge investment on the part of author, publisher, and reader, and I'm grateful that so many people were willing to invest along with me.

  

  Rae Carson
  • People
  • Tired
  • Author

• I don't judge people by their accent, or how they word things, or how grammatically correct their speech is. Some of the smartest men in the world couldn't spell. I judge a person by their character.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

  

  Nicholas Negroponte
  • People
  • Machines
  • Serve