Niels Diffrient Quotes
Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
Quotes to Explore
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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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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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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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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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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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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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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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Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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When I grew up, the only way a lad like me would maybe escape was playing football. Not being an actor.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.
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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime.
