Genevieve Bell Quotes
It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse - in any way, shape or form - for anti-Semitism.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
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I find that very appealing: the blurring of the lines between what's funny and what's tragic. And what's ordinary and what's not - the big things in the small things.
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Don't tell God they were only little globs of tissue. They were real live persons, being formed in their mother;s womb.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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I was officially advised that during the long vacation it might be profitable to attain at least a nodding acquaintance with the curriculum, and thus stave off the already likely possibility that I would receive a degree classified so low it would be tantamount to a certificate of mental disability.
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I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.
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Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.
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Good parents are always on time. So are good CEOs.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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If you have less weight, you have less strength.
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It's not good enough to just keep producing technology with no notion of whether it's going to be useful. You have to create stuff that people really want, rather than create stuff just because you can.
