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 start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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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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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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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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The public...demands certainties...But there are no certainties.
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With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.
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I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.
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If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
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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.
