Ted Nelson Quotes

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

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• I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Myself

• I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Like
  • Head
  • Top

• I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Know
  • Travel
  • Author

• Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Day
  • One Day
  • Pyramids

• There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers - but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Country
  • Children
  • American

• The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • Parents
  • Nice
  • Child

• The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Life
  • America
  • Today

• You go to see movies to feel something, and being terrified - there's something so fun about that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Fun
  • Feel
  • Movies

• I think maybe I was a shepherdess in a past life.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Think
  • Past

• I don't have a problem with a board that advises, that supervises, one with which we can have a discussion. But we will never accept a board that has control over Puerto Rico's affairs.

  

  Eduardo Bhatia
  • Control

• I don't feel any connection to Russia.

  

  Anton Yelchin
  • Connection

• What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Think
  • Funny

• I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government. And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to. They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes. So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Faith
  • Question
  • Government

• it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Heart
  • Society
  • Education

• Life is the path you beat while you walk it.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Life
  • Path
  • Walk

• Acting can be a very reactive profession. Acting is a fantastic thing, and it's my life, but writing is also part of me too, so I did it, and in so doing, took responsibility for my own life.

  

  Stephen Lang
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Responsibility

• Ultimately, the problem we face is confronting a twenty-third-century dilemma armed only with a thirteenth-century mind. Our project of civilization has been successful on scales we could not have imagined when we began it ten millennia ago. But with that success has come consequences that will last for centuries.

  

  Adam Frank
  • Civilization
  • Project
  • Consequences

• I've produced before, and sometimes it's by default. In the indie level, you can't just come to set and be like, 'Oh, I'm an actor.' You have to be willing to help out, make the project happen.

  

  Sung Kang
  • Help
  • Happen
  • Project

• Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

  

  Iman
  • English
  • Language
  • Better

• I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.

  

  Karen Handel
  • World
  • Believe
  • Society

• Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Project
  • Originally