Ian Buruma Quotes
I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will prevent us from making similar blunders in the future... And yet it is important to know what happened before, and to try and make sense of it. For if we don't, we cannot understand our own times.
Ian Buruma
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
Warren Spector
But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
Pat Robertson
The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
Utkarsh Ambudkar
I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
Barry Jenkins
I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
Carl Paladino
I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.
Gabriel Byrne
Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.
Elliott Yamin
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
J. D. Hayworth
What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
E. O. Wilson
Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.
Canning Fok
I am skeptical about the idea that we can learn much from history, at least in the sense that knowledge of past follies will prevent us from making similar blunders in the future... And yet it is important to know what happened before, and to try and make sense of it. For if we don't, we cannot understand our own times.
Ian Buruma
