Aaron Swartz Quotes
Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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Basically, men are afraid of women and can't handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.
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As we become purer channels for God's light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be.
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Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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A dominant misconception among believers is that their atheist brethren are a slavering pack of hell-bound debauchees, gleefully wining and wenching their way through life while loudly professing their amorality.
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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
