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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Globalization is not in itself a folly: It has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.
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If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.
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I listened to a lot of Jay Z and Nas, stuff like that, so I was always New York-influenced. I think I have that New York flow.
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I had actually tested first with 'Young and Restless' for the role of Daisy. It came down to three of us, but I didn't book that job. A couple of weeks later, I was told that I had an audition for 'B&B.' I did two auditions, and they booked me. It was a short process, which I greatly appreciated!
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[Bill Clinton] has settled numerous lawsuits without admitting any guilt on a whole number of things. Are you saying, are you implying that settling a lawsuit is implying guilt? Because if so, it means that your candidate is guilty of an awful lot of things, no.
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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.
