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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Rich and successful people are solution-oriented; they spend their time and energy strategizing and planning the answers to challenges that come up, and creating systems to make certain that problem doesn't occur again.
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My father and I rarely saw eye to eye when I was growing up. We saw the world differently. It was only when we were both adults that we were able to share spectacles. However, football, and particularly the World Cup, was when we, enemy combatants, could traverse trenches and be together.
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Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here.
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There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree which struggles to reach the sky.
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I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.
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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.
