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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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 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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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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If you go into a bank or a shop and you want them to believe that you're going to shoot them, that's an acting exercise. If you want to turn to someone else who's as tooled up as you are and persuade them to put their knife down because you'll use your knife, that's an acting exercise. Nine out of 10 delinquents are frustrated actors.
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We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.
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My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.
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I frequently am contacted by people who want to thank me for 'The Brady Bunch.' Whether they grew up during the show's original television run or are brand-new fans of the present generation, they tell me how important 'The Brady Bunch' has been in their lives.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.
