Nicholas G. Carr Quotes
A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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I just really love being in my pajamas.
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El corazón es un infinito de pesadísimas cadenas, encadenando puñaditos de aire.
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La pobreza ajena me basta para sentirme pobre; la mía no me basta.
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I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.
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To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.
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Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.
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It's a pleasure. We are lucky guys to be there in front of the millions and millions watching us.
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Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.
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How most consumers collect and interpret health information has changed.
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At night, I'll do coconut oil or almond oil on my face as a mask to replenish my skin. I've found those are so simple but work better than any other product. Coconut oil is so good, but if you don't want to smell like a cookie, sweet almond oil isn't as pungent.
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The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.
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We have to evolve, we have to change, and in order to do that, we have to initiate the change.
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Early investors in Uber and Airbnb, though they remain private companies, have valued them at stratospheric multiples based largely on the notion that Uber will transform and dominate local transportation and Airbnb will revolutionize the hotel industry.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
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A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.
