Astro Teller Quotes
The Explorer edition of Glass wasn't for everyone, but the Explorer program pushed us to find a wide range of near-term applications and uses for something like Glass.
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It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.
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I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.
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I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.
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I want to play in the WBC. That was one of my goals to represent my country.
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I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.
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When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
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To me, America is just another market.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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I want to be a well-rounded, versatile performer.
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There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy. But I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.
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But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
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Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
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I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille.
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I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'
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I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.
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By and large, I'm in the same boat as other inventors. If we're lucky, of the 10 or 15 items we do a year, maybe one or two of them wind up with a licensing agreement.
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Fear and the thought of failure . . . But we don't really know what fear is. Fear is something that we create in our own minds. Fear could be like fire. You can use it to heat you up, keep you warm, cook your food. There are so many things you can use it for. But if you allow it to go out of control, it will destroy you and everything around you.
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After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
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The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
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The Explorer edition of Glass wasn't for everyone, but the Explorer program pushed us to find a wide range of near-term applications and uses for something like Glass.
