Nicholas Negroponte Quotes
The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.

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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.
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My eyes are too small, and they're too close together, and I have a pointy nose. But who cares? Who cares?!
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I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets and be hanging out in Hollywood, but as a show, comedically, it was not funny. Not a funny show. It's funny, ironically, because of how terrible it is.
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The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.