Nicholas G. Carr Quotes
The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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I try to say something about the human condition whenever I can when I'm lucky.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.
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One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
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I read 'Whiplash,' and I wanted to do it.
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Poetry is not an art or a branch of art: it's something more.
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It's more of an adventure when you set off into unknown territory, and there's nothing like that feeling you get when you discover a place on the Earth where no one has ever been.
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Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along.
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The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.
