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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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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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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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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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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I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.
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When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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All the time we spent in bed, counting miles before we said, fall in love and fall apart, things will end before they start.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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The ability to make big leaps of thought is a common denominator among the originators of breakthrough ideas.
