Nick D'Aloisio Quotes
My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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I feel people care so much about their appearance - which is important, and I do still care about my appearance, but not that much. There's far more to life than that.
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
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I just want to do great work: work that inspires people... To know that you are given this gift in life and that you can gift other people with it, that's the most rewarding thing for me.
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I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
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I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
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I think of myself as an actor.
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I'm just a small guy.
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Believe it or not, the biggest obstacle for a business owner with any size business is the internal response to the question - 'Now what?' Often this question is followed by a - deer in the headlights - response, which is then followed by stagnation. Following stagnation comes fear.
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It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.
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The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.
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Techno-optimism is a belief in the power of technology to extend our sphere of possibilities and, ultimately, a belief that technology helps us solve and transcend problems, limitations and obstacles.
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My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed.
