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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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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My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem – solving. She can solve any problem.
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That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.
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I dreamed my whole life of New York being my home.
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A lot of your mental energy goes to figuring out where does one word end and the next begin.
