Nick Bilton Quotes
The press pass and the a title of “journalist” had been replaced by a smart phone and a Twitter account.
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I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.
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It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it's our city now, too.
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For those still outside the cult of Slack, it's a service - available as a desktop or mobile app, or a website - which is essentially a series of public chat rooms (called channels) on topics relevant to a company or to teams within a company.
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I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.
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I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the scenes have the shape I think they have musically and dramatically.
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The strongest army in the world [the French] facing no more than twenty-six [German] divisions, sitting still and sheltering behind steel and concrete while a quixotically valiant ally was being exterminated!
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
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Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.
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Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.
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The press pass and the a title of “journalist” had been replaced by a smart phone and a Twitter account.
