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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It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
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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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Film is really the one art form that can effectively use silence. Music and theater can play with silence, but they can't sustain silence without losing energy, whereas film can go into a silent mode and stay there for minutes at a time.
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...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can read to them, talk to them about what they're reading, and make time for this by turning off the television set ourselves. Libraries are a critical tool to help parents do this.
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I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.
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I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.
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I dont like talking about any projects till they solidify and take off.
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A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.
