Stewart Brand Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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I have some property. We have a few acres, so I like working on it, whether it's cutting stuff down, cleaning stuff up, building steps, or working with concrete, you know, brickwork.
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Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.
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The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence.
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A company doesn't have to compete with Amazon. A company can instead innovate in sectors Amazon doesn't presently care about.
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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
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We can influence the future but not see it.
