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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Get well soon, Castro. pause Actually, no, don't; die, you bastard!
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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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We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor's degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree.
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The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
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Any claim to ourselves, to the hands that secured us, the spine that braced us, and the head that directed us, was contestable.
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After all these years, I'm starting to learn what a good director does, and I know what a good one does with actors: help us navigate finer instincts, help us when we're wrong, encourage us when things are great.
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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!
