Nick D'Aloisio Quotes
I like playing sport. I'm a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer. So my being able to reach the masses was something that meant a great deal to me - especially for women who could never wear Vera Wang.
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Love is always being given where it is not required.
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Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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I think women are different, and I think having them in the room is crucial to a family comedy, ensemble comedy, television comedy, where half the eyeballs on your show are women.
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Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.
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If you have less games, less back-to-backs, the product's better. The fans will appreciate it more. You see those college guys playing so hard, but they play 36 games in the same amount of time we play 82 almost.
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Be bold and wear things you like. If you want to wear a cropped top, do it!
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Sometimes it's good to do something that you've never done before, so yesterday, I went out to buy Elton John's new album.
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I go to an all-Hawaiian school, and we learn everything about being Hawaiian. We have a really deep respect for the water and the land. We say, 'mauka to makai,' mountains to ocean. I believe if you take care of the ocean, the ocean will take care of you in return.
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Forget your opponents; always play against par.
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What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.
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I feel like God's given me a gift that I want to steward and share with the world.
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To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.
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People interact with their phones very differently than they do with their PCs, and I think that when you design from the ground up with mobile in mind, you create a very different product than going the other way.
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I like playing sport. I'm a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.
