David Shenk Quotes
Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.David Shenk
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I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise any more! I was terrible! It must have been hard for them to listen to me as a beginning drummer.
Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe -
I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Carla Bley -
I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
Abe Lemons -
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
Galileo Galilei -
It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
Kara Walker -
Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
Patrick Chappatte
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
Garry Marshall -
I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.
Vanilla Ice -
The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
Sam Harris -
It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
Barton Gellman -
I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
Manny Pacquiao -
In China we need to do our own part to try to combat global climate change.
Ma Jun
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
Gayle Forman -
My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Edmond de Goncourt -
The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
Viktor Yushchenko -
You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
H. R. Giger
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I'm pretty professional. I'm very aware when I'm not playing well and what I need to improve. I'm pretty motivated to fix things. There are guys out there who are not realistic; they don't like to take blame for certain things they don't do well. That's the nature of doubles sometimes: it's easy to find faults in your partner.
Daniel Nestor -
If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.
Yitzhak Shamir -
The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.
Bill Gates -
If the Trump White House and their allies in the media want to have this conversation about decency, I welcome them to the table to talk about it. But there's a bunch of stuff that they need to get caught up on before we get to a comedian at the White House dinner.
Jake Tapper -
Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.
David Shenk