Ringo Starr Quotes
The main thing is not to be afraid of that, to get to a place where you'll go gracefully, not screaming and kicking up a fuss.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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Tech companies tend to do tech best.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
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The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
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Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
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Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.
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Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards.
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The main thing is not to be afraid of that, to get to a place where you'll go gracefully, not screaming and kicking up a fuss.
