Dan Buettner Quotes
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun.
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Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
