Nolan Bushnell Quotes
Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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Try telling people in the Seventies that butter was healthier for you than margarine, and they would force feed you with Stork.
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I just wasn't psychologically made to get married or, God forbid, be a father.
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My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can't make myself put the right words on paper until I'm ready. Once I'm ready, I'm a focused, disciplined writer who will put in twelve hours a day at the computer, but I also spend a lot of time away from the computer getting to that point.
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I don't condone racism. I don't condone prejudice.
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I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.
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Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.
