Nathaniel Borenstein Quotes
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If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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We will not lose this election for lack of money.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.
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In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
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But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
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So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.
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What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.
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I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.
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Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.
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Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.
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Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?
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I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else. So when I was a teen I reached out in a wrong way. I started to be a mugger, to rob people in the streets, just to supply for my needs.
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It is better to play than do nothing.
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It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
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It felt like I´d been lying on that bed for a thousand years, tormented by every demon possible.
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Scientists are convinced that they, as scientists, possess a number of very admirable human qualities, such as accuracy, observation, reasoning power, intellectual curiosity, tolerance, and even humility.
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Software patents may be used as a form of outright coercion, providing protection against theft of ideas as a potentially high cost to future inventors.
