Edward Felten Quotes
Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.
Quotes to Explore
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.
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What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises.
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells and all the baggage they brought with them. But now, looking at Deb, I realized what else I'd given up: knowing for sure that someone was going to miss me. What happened to goodbye, Michael in Westcott had written on my Ume.com page. I was pretty sure I knew, now. It had been packed away in a box of its own, trying to be forgotten, until I really needed it. Until now.
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Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.
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Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.
