Astro Teller Quotes
If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.
Quotes to Explore
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
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With 'Location' and all the other songs around it, my music turned into therapy for others. And that's something I really love and am blown away by.
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Do you think Radiohead is my whole goddamn life? I also have a roadside cart where I sell apples and mincemeat pies.
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I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, and that is to be in power.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how well trained his guards may be. If he violates the will of the people, he shall be eliminated.
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If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.
