Ted Nelson Quotes
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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Mummy, Bea and I call ourselves 'the Tripod' - they are my best friends in the world.
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A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.
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There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.
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Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded”, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the history of humanity. No primitive tribe worshipping with its witch-doctor was ever more vicious in its hatred and suppression of heretics than today's Marxist intellectuals, anti-racists and liberals.
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The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.
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The technicalities matter a lot, but the unifying vision matters more.
