Allen Neuharth Quotes
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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It's hard to bring up your children on benefit. It's easier if you can do part- time work, or even full-time work, and actually have a better standard of living, and that's the direction in which we are going.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
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I'm constantly hydrating my hair.
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The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.
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I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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I'll watch anything, from action to art films.
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Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.
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I would be lying if I said if I didn't miss out on what normal teenagers do, of course. But I don't need pity for that.
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I don't get to sue just because I don't like something.
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I don't think that evolution is supremely important because it is my specialty; it is my specialty because I think it is supremely important.
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Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
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There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.
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Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty.
