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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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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I always liked the visuals to be choice and at the same time minimalist. And, I love black boxes. After all, that's what theatre is, it's an empty space, and it's both limited and unlimited because the space is the space, but what you can do with people's imaginations is really endless.
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When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'
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I'm fascinated with quantum physics.
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What does the doctrine of American exceptionalism empower the United States to do? Nothing more than to act better than traditional empires - committed to looting and conquest - have done. So that's American exceptionalism: an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them.
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I remember unbelievable tension in our home. There were lots of meetings, lots of worries. I remember my father told me I had to be careful of what I said on the phone because it was tapped. And I remember how his friends adored and revered him.
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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.
