Bill Buxton Quotes
If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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With my voice and my band, I can do anything.
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I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.
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The worship of Adonis is united with that of Christ.
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You need a reason to be angry. You don't need a reason to be happy.
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In government as well as in trade a new era came to the colonies in 1763.
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In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.
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I know that if I'm going to take myself to where I want to go as an athlete and a person, I have to look at all my training options.
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I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
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When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.
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Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
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When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly 'Gladiator,' you may ask yourself why and at the same time thank him for his absorption in the part.
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It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.
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My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was telling me something totally different that there was a God. He knit me together in my mother's womb. He made me special. He wanted to have a personal relationship with me.
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Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.
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If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!
