David Bellos Quotes
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.
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History is not just about the things we like or the people we want to love and admire—a fantasy date with our favorite dead person.
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Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
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I think I have a heavily compartmentalized brain, which means that certain routines are simply running without me realizing it.
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I wrote 'Science For Her!' because I found normal, manly science textbooks to be too intense for my small size-0 brain, and I found normal science textbooks to have covers too heavy for my dainty size-0/size-2-with-bloat hands.
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Translating is a respectable, valuable, creative and worthwhile use of a human brain.
