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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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.
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The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them.
