Alan Cooper Quotes
E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.
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I would go through phases of wanting to be a mermaid or a vet, but because I grew up around people who were always making movies, I guess it sort of just moulded my mind.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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A lot of people glorify and romanticize the idea of being an early bloomer: finding success very early and being a child star. But it can also be quite dangerous.
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Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
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Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
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'It's kind of a dream come true, because to me fashion is not just the clothes, it's all the accoutrements that go with it...
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.
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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
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It helps to write as the character that I am trying to be, and try to journal every day as them. Once I've already recorded thoughts as this person, it's easier to just flip back through and be like, 'Oh, yeah, this is what she's thinking; this is what she's feeling.'
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I'm just someone who cannot fake it. I can only do something with my full heart invested or just not do it at all.
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E-mail is the most influential application ever to appear on a personal computer, and it remains sadly deficient.
