Walter Isaacson Quotes
I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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We are all different human beings, and we all have different backgrounds, and we stem from different social strata. That is what defines how you hear people talk, how you want to quote them when you speak. We all have different fears and doubts and complexes and this is what shapes the way we see other people. Especially characters.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.
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I don't owe people anything, and I don't have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.
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There's really nothing better than a hunt ball.
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There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
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You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
