Betty Furness Quotes
The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side industry invents the rules and the other side consumers is left to guess what they are.
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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My family is a praying family, a Christian family.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.
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I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.
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I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.
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Acting's boring.
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Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
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For me, I can't see Liverpool without him because he's just been there since I was a kid. I had him on the back of my shirt. He's always been on the team every time I've watched Liverpool. It's going to be really weird next season, a Steven Gerrard-less Liverpool side.
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We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.
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The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
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I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.
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Sequels are desperate.
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We exchanged a meaning glance. Or, rather, two meaning glances, I giving him one and he giving me the other.
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Now I foul out of the game and it looks like I'm a hack. It's frustrating. Hopefully I can just come out tomorrow and play a great game.
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The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.
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The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side industry invents the rules and the other side consumers is left to guess what they are.
