Gary Hustwit Quotes
Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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Like Hillary Clinton, I, too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.
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I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.
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When your dreams include service to others - accomplishing something that contributes to others - it also accelerates the accomplishment of that goal. People want to be part of something that contributes and makes a difference.
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A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
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Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.
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It is a big responsibility to headline on pay-per-view.
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I'm from Pennsylvania, so I was in New York a lot and my brother lives in New York.
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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.
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I feel real ownership in this show. I feel very invested in it. I care very much about it. I don't feel any more like a hired hand, you know? It's a strange feeling - I feel personally responsible for how the story goes. What happens. What the weaknesses are. And so in a way, some of the changes gave me an opportunity to have a voice in a different way.
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Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.
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Everything isn't starting out well, but you have to look at it like we can turn it around.
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I don't know if I'll ever get used to the idea that strangers know who I am. I don't know if I want to.
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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography.
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I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.
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The marketing department uses many advanced techniques to match products and buyers in a way that mximizes profits. For example, they give away keychains.
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Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Road, Chelsea, with Shrimpton was like walking through the rye. Strong men just keeled over right and left as she strode up the street.
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I want to literally make people smarter by jamming things in their brains.
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Beijing is an example of [families were displaced for the Olympics]. Something like 10,000 families were moved out.
