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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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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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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Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
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My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.
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For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.
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My mom's a screenwriter, and before that, she was an actress, and my father was an actor; my stepfather was a director, so I was on sets a lot as a kid. I loved the magic of the set. You walk in, and it's a living room, and you walk outside, and it's just a piece of wood held up by another piece of wood.
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Getting involved with the Boys and Girls Club helped keep me and my sister from getting in trouble.
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You can and must understand computers now!
