Nolan Bushnell Quotes
I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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Sure I'm leaving the Bee Gees. I'm going into films.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.
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The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.
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I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.
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It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.
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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
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I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
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What is the little one thinking about?
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Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
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The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.
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I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.
