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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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In China we need to do our own part to try to combat global climate change.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
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I don't have a life, I really don't. I'm as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I'm a golf nun.
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Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain.
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I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.
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Nobody would take me seriously. They would take one look at me and say, 'O.K., folk singer.' That was really hard for me, and I was angry a lot of the time. I did all these summer programs, and I never encountered another female playing jazz guitar. Ever.
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You have to accept the rule of law, even when it's inconvenient, if you're going to be a country that bides by the rule of law.
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Do the least harm and the most good.
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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.
