Daniel Burrus Quotes
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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I think the system is broken; most people think that it's broken. And we think that what we're going to do is invigorate the political system and allow for this country to be turned around.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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I totally had OCD as a teenager. I used to have to touch all four sides of a picture frame when I got home from school and before I started to do my homework. It was time-consuming. But then I just outgrew it, though it sometimes comes back when I'm under a lot of stress.
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The dose makes the poison.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
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I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.
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Polychain manages a hedge fund that invests exclusively in digital assets. We invest exclusively in protocols, not companies, and we do this by investing in things made scarce through the blockchain.
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If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.
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The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.
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There's a place for him, but he's the final determinant as to whether he achieves that or not. He needs to capture the imagination of a universe hungry for decent thought and passion. All he has to do is be truthful and have a vision for what to do and stop playing a goddamn game of politics. If he does that, he'll get everything he needs.
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If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
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One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
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I travel probably four days a week. That's the game of international development. You have to be at your properties. No developer is successful sitting behind their desk.
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Keeping up is a fool's game; seek advantage instead.
