Edward Boyden Quotes
The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.
Quotes to Explore
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
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An ambitious, surreal tale of the love between a young Arab girl sold into marriage and the orphan boy she adopts, 'Habibi' spans multiple eras of conflict and change, stretching the lifetimes of its two protagonists over many centuries.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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I love to perform. But I don't like the traveling.
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Sounding like I have agency in a song is important to me. I want to feel empowered by the music.
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Anyone who's been the Olympic trials before is a veteran.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.
