Niels Diffrient Quotes
Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.
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I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
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It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
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I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
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I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.
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I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it.
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I'm terrible in high heels. I'm so bad.
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I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
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I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.
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Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
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'Bake Off' is one of my favourite programmes, so I was genuinely a little bit shocked and very excited when I was asked to take part.
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The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
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I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
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If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.
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I guess that is what dying must be like; to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion.
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There was room for a Democrat to break with the interest groups and to vote for Roberts. (Hillary Clinton) could have because she has credentials of thirty-years standing.
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Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.
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Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
