David Gelernter Quotes
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
Harrison Ford -
Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
Zoe Saldana -
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Nathalie Sarraute -
Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
Sally Pearson -
Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
Usher
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
Nate Silver -
It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
Harrison Ford -
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Wendell Berry -
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams -
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
Taylor Swift -
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work seven days a week, and I live in this sort of vague subconscious fog a lot.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
Knowledge is also inferred from what is accepted as established knowledge, with new knowledge being based on the best explanation. This includes possible truths subject to proof.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.
Elbert Hubbard -
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
Benjamin Harrison -
Anyone who has been successful and has knowledge to share is a potential mentor.
Ory Okolloh -
To betray, you must first belong.
Kim Philby
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Country music has room for a little bit of everything.
Chris Lane -
Now you, as a young person, may have no faith in your country, or in your church, or in your family. But you can still have faith in an ideal. If you have an ideal in front of you, you will never get lost on the journey of life. It is, after all, the journey that matters.
Edward Bloor -
The terror of figuring out a new genre, of telling a new story, is what makes the job exciting, keeps me from getting bored, and I assume it keeps whoever follows my work from getting bored as well.
Colson Whitehead -
I've got Arabic music in my blood.
Stewart Copeland The Police -
I look younger; I feel younger. I'm in no rush to grow up or seem older to people.
Danielle Panabaker -
Computers make people stupid.
David Gelernter