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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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 was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'
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Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.
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The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.
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I tend to over-intellectualize things, to come at them from a structural point.
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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.
