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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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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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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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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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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You don't know when things are going to happen, so I don't think you should be waiting around for them, so I'm interested in making stuff and being in that stuff - that's what my focus is.
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I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces
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I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music.
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The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside.
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Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
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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.
