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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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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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'm never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.
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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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Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.
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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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Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.
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An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts is a simpler task if the endeavor you are leading them into is attached to a bigger story.
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I like the Foo Fighters a lot - apart from them being friends of mine as well. They're definitely a fantastic live act to see: so much energy and possibly even bigger in Europe than they are in the U.S., and that's great.
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I was a delivery boy at one point.
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Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray." Oh. "You get me the nicest things." "Anybody can get jewelry. Posers
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A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.
