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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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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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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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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I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
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I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.
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My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
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Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
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Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.
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Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.
