Bert McCracken Quotes

When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren't for the band, I think I'd still be getting high.

Bert McCracken

• Band
• Drug
• Stills
• Hooked
• Narcotics

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• The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Manipulation
  • Blockchain

• Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Act
  • Curiosity
  • Analysis

• Like so many poor Ilokanos, my grandparents left their village, for it could no longer sustain them. The Ilocos is a narrow coastal plain where, so often, the mountain drops to the sea. Land hunger had always afflicted the Ilokanos and made them migratory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Sea
  • Mountain
  • Grandparents

• How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • School
  • Power
  • Technology

• After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Country
  • Real
  • Man

• The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Man
  • Model

• Giving children a fair chance to achieve their dreams and reach their potential is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Responsibility

• Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Never
  • Talk

• Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Service
  • Innovation

• I don't really remember much about Kosovo. I only remember growing up in London, where my parents had to basically start from scratch.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Parents

• The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.

  

  Lucas Papademos
  • Country

• I'm 56 - I don't want to look like I'm 20.

  

  Marie Helvin

• When I look back, I'm definitely proud of what I did. It kind of allows me to move forward and reset my goals.

  

  Katie Hoff
  • Proud
  • Goals

• Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Life
  • Different
  • Science

• I'm really just using the mirror to summon something I don't even know until I see it.

  

  Cindy Sherman
  • Mirror

• Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.

  

  Lynda Resnick
  • Art
  • Pretty
  • Education

• I'm the chairman of the board of the Actor's Fund. It's an incredible organization. It helps anybody that has made their living in the performing arts and entertainment: actors, singers, dancers, film producers, agents, managers, ticket takers, writers, anybody in times of need or crisis.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Organization

• I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • Great
  • Humanity

• There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

  

  Jon Postel

• First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Telephone
  • First Words

• It’s a poor atom blaster that won’t point both ways.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

  

  Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
  • Important
  • Band
  • Times

• When I hooked up with them I was still going to Narcotics Anonymous. But they were never into drugs. If it weren't for the band, I think I'd still be getting high.

  

  Bert McCracken
  • Band
  • Drug
  • Stills