Ted Nelson Quotes
The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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I'm totally comfortable with myself.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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I am not surprised that other gases may participate in cellular signaling and regulation. Our early work with nitric oxide was just the beginning. I'm sure more will be discovered.
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We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I have a special ability to spot TV shows that don't go past two seasons; that's my gift.
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The first thing I say when someone says they want to be an actor is, 'Go get 'Backstage.' You know what's going on, you know who's doing what, and there's work that you can find in there. It's an incredible resource, and there's nothing else like it.
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I'm not by nature a terribly intuitive person; I need to build a situation in which I will behave more intuitively, and that has really changed the life of my work - I found a way to trick myself into being intuitive.
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A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.
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I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.
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The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
