Andy Hertzfeld Quotes
Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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My favorite makeup look was for my 'Eyes Wide Open' video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.
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The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.
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If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
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Governments aren't going to go away; banks aren't going to go away.
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Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.
