Alan Kay Quotes
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
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I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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I got sick when I was 19, and I'd been a really healthy 19-year-old, so I don't have a lot to compare it to. Does it feel like the pain after you give birth? I don't know.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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I write because writing is something that I have to do. And it doesn't matter whether people like it or not. When I write, I feel the pressure and anxiety that come with taking an empty piece of paper and trying to fill it with something from your own consciousness.
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You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.
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Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.
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UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.
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I thought if I can still be the central voice but without having an ‘I’ there, and by not having it there, it makes it easier for the reader to slip into the consciousness of the narrator. If you remove the letter ‘I’ it becomes a universal I. Everybody is the author walking down those streets while they are in the prose.
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
