Aaron Swartz Quotes
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I love cycling.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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The last thing we need is efforts by some politicians and the NRA to arm educators and allow more guns in our schools.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
