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.
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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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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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In high school, during lunchtime I would go in the room where the wrestling mats were and try different flips and different moves. Like windmills. I just started mixing martial arts with jazz and contemporary stuff and it would get mashed together and became my style.
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One of the main functions of politicians - and journalists - is to simplify the world for us.
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It's about taking the time to research and think things out. Honest people and criminals do the same thing; just the direction, good or bad, is different.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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We do not want to interfere with the freedom of press.
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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.
