Jack Valenti Quotes

If you design your own machine, you can't fuss at people, because you're one of just a few. How many Linux users are there?

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• The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • War
  • First

• I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Home
  • Together

• I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • World
  • Theatre
  • Seeing

• I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Body

• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Travel

• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Never
  • Young
  • Published

• I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Learning
  • Design
  • Build

• I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Love
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Die
  • Kill

• Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • House
  • Sometimes

• What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Fear
  • Interesting
  • Question

• Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Team

• Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Think
  • Morning
  • Laugh

• For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Up
  • Years
  • Professional

• The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Pride
  • Ignorance
  • Arrogance

• The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Food

• Running doesn't come easy to me, especially the first thirty or so minutes. My message is take it one step at a time.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Time
  • Running
  • Easy

• Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Gratitude

• There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Good
  • Light
  • Evil

• There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Go
  • Second
  • Academia

• I spent most of my career in hi tech, not in politics.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Hi

• If you design your own machine, you can't fuss at people, because you're one of just a few. How many Linux users are there?

  

  Jack Valenti
  • People
  • Design