Nicholas Negroponte Quotes
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.
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We must not allow the horrific actions of madmen to cut us off from our humanity.
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And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.
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My dad was one of only four congressmen who supported Reagan.
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I've never really done any interviews as myself.
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On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.
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I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
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If you've enjoyed 'Battlestar Galactica', you should love my stuff.
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I always modeled my game after the guys from Miami. Chad Ochocinco, Santana Moss, Andre Johnson. I used to love Roscoe Parrish as a returner.
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Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
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The biggest lie in the world is in answer to the question, 'How are you?' People usually say, 'I'm fine,' but that's mostly bull. Everyone wants to display being perfect. They tell themselves and their friends, 'I drive this car, I own this house, I'm fine.' People ball up into these tight wads of repression.
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I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.
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When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.
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As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.
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For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
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I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It's a pretty good test.
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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
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In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.
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Good education has got to be good entertainment.
