Vint Cerf Quotes
I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
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If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one of these guys that does the 15-20 minute nap. I don't play those games. I'm, like, an hour minimum. I'm not gonna lay down unless I know I have at least an hour.
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The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
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I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.
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I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that chores are good; I think that allowances are good. I think combining them is bad.
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Many white-collar workers are lucky enough to have creative-class jobs that are satisfying, which is great as long as you're still able to carve out true, work-free leisure at some point. But there's been a kind of sneaky reframing of work as play as the Silicon Valley model has been imported into other fields. Now you see adult offices that look like nursery schools, and staff paintball parties, work cultures that encourage the "We're a family here!" fantasy while preventing workers from going home at a reasonable hour to be with their actual families.
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For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.
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I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
