Nick Bilton Quotes
Most people go through life thinking that tomorrow they’re going to do something great. Tomorrow will be the day that they wake up and discover what they were put on this earth to do. But then tomorrow comes—and goes. As does the next day. Before long, they realize that there aren’t that many tomorrows left.
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.
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I'm going to trust my instincts when something's wrong.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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When I was a kid, I loved 'Little Women.'
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They took away time, and they gave us the clock.
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The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
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The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.
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The question is not, "Why is there only one way to God?" but "Why is there even one way?"
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Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again
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Seeing Dre looking all cut up and in shape made me want to get myself together and look right, too.
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Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
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As people, [my parents were] very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.
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Most people go through life thinking that tomorrow they’re going to do something great. Tomorrow will be the day that they wake up and discover what they were put on this earth to do. But then tomorrow comes—and goes. As does the next day. Before long, they realize that there aren’t that many tomorrows left.
