Scott McNealy Quotes
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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The wheelchair and the prosthesis give me a soapbox to stand on. If it helps me get my message across, I'm glad; then we need to talk about what we need to do for this country.
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Die Antwoord is super pop. It's a pop music.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
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What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
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Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change.
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I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I'd rather just do me and have people say, 'Oh. That's interesting,' than try to fit in.
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Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
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Stories do not change the world. I've learned that. But perhaps in some secret, subtle way... I mean it's not the world I want to change.
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In a world without fences, who needs Gates?
