Niels Diffrient Quotes
The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I don't really go out at all.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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I was not the popular kid in school.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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The simple truth is that you can understand the way you are. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you're just a part of it.
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The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them.
