Arthur Brisbane Quotes
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
Quotes to Explore
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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Tor.com has been a venue for original SF and fantasy since 2008, but we've never formalized our process for submissions. Indeed, for a long time, we were totally winging it.
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Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
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People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old curmudgeon.
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One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.
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Some loved me, some hated me - but they all followed me.
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We do it all the time, we legislate taste. We do it with the tax code. Churches and children get a tax break, because it's assumed that we all agree that we want to encourage churches and children. I don't. I don't. That's my opinion. I don't want to encourage either churches or children, and it's a very bad idea to put them together.
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Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
