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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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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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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It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space.
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I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
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Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be amazing. That's where the gold is.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them.
