Barack Obama Quotes
Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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A reader's eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.
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Before I got the contract, I'd heard from a lot of people that a contract with a company like Estee Lauder was like a stamp of approval, a stamp of your legit-ness. So getting that was a really big step for me.
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ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It's a serious problem overseas, but it's confusing and frightening.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?
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Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy. Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time. And of course, Leonard was Spock. Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future. I loved Spock.
