Ted Nelson Quotes
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I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
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I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
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'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.
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White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.
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We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.
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Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.
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When I am not working, I try to watch more than one film a day if I can.
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When I moved to New York, obviously I work with a lot of high fashion brands and I get to wear insane, totally crazy bags and all this crazy stuff but still, I'll always go back to my original sense of style.
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Doors that presented themselves before, which I couldn't walk through, are at least there. And there are a few keyholes I can pick.
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For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.
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If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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You can and must understand computers now!
