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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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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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
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I long had a goal of becoming president of a company. But it was not till I was 57 years old that I became president of Cisco Systems with its 34 employees. Life offers opportunity at every stage.
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.
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Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Your brain sends out vibrations all the time, and your thoughts affect your life and other people's. They pick up these thoughts and get changed by them. That's why, say, a pacifist gets caught up in a riot situation. It's a field of vibrations - you can 'feel' someone else's thoughts when close to them.
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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.
