Shawn Fanning Quotes
That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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If you don't think about or deal with an issue, it gets bigger.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.
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The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over.
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People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.
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When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
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In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.
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We have to change the culture of mass violence we have.
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Tom and I didn't have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it.
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That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.
