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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Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.
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Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.
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There are supply chains that exist in China and Asia now which the U.S. simply can't replicate.
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I tattooed my body so I couldn't fall back on anything. I purposely did that so I couldn't get a normal job and live a normal life. I did it so I had to play music.
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Everybody is so anti-aging, but I don't want to look younger than I am. Our face is a map of our life; the more that's there, the better.
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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.
