Nicholas G. Carr Quotes
The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to the environment of the internet, which is an environment of kind of constant immersion and information and constant distractions, interruptions, juggling lots of messages, lots of bits of information.
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Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me.
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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Ain't no problem with me and Kevin Gates; everybody just trippin'.
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We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.
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No matter how you're feeling, a little dog gunna love you.
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'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
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I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
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We gon' be around for a long time.
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Begin with another's to end with your own.
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To act is to rest.
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I do not think we are deceived to grow, But that the crudest fancy, slightest show, Covers some separate truth that we may know.In the one Truth, each separate fact is true; Eternally in one I many view, And destinies through destiny pursue.
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A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
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The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get chopped up into ever-smaller parcels.
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Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.
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The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.
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The hardest thing to get right is to figure out how to bring all those characters together, and to fulfill the promise of The Avengers. They really set a very high bar for themselves because you've been setting this coalition up, for these five movies, and they better deliver. And in my opinion, they thoroughly deliver.
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Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens the door to a critique without which you have rather boring analytical tools by comparison. To cultivate poetry means to stay with it. Not to abandon hope, but to abide.
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The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to the environment of the internet, which is an environment of kind of constant immersion and information and constant distractions, interruptions, juggling lots of messages, lots of bits of information.
