Chris Baio (Christopher Baio) Quotes
I could go play some songs for two hours every week - play whatever I wanted to - and then also spend that time putting more music on my computer and getting into more things. It definitely informs the way that I think about music and I think in general, made me a more open-minded consumer of music.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.
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It's terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.
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Every human mind you've ever looked at … is a product not just of natural selection but of cultural redesign of enormous proportions.
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I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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Now there's no more oak oppressionFor they passed a noble lawAnd the trees are all kept equalBy hatchet, axe and saw - The Trees (1978)
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It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.
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I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.
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Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.
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For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
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I never really liked Minor Threat. Actually, I kind of thought they sucked. And then Daniel came into practice one day and said, 'Oh, let's play a song it's called Minor Threat.' And I just thought, 'I don't want to play that fucking song!' And then I said, 'Yeah, I will do it.' And then we were playing it. And it's, like, grand and I ended loving this song and started listening to more of their stuff. I love them and they are great.
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I could go play some songs for two hours every week - play whatever I wanted to - and then also spend that time putting more music on my computer and getting into more things. It definitely informs the way that I think about music and I think in general, made me a more open-minded consumer of music.
