Darius Rucker Quotes
I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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My first week at Stanford, I bought a computer, and it was the first computer I ever owned. I had to be taught how to turn it on and even how to use a mouse, even though, for a lot of people, a mouse is very intuitive.
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Barack Obama is not a man of The Gut, and it is driving official Washington crazy. This is a good thing, because resisting The Gut is what the Constitution is all about, especially in its war powers, which this president is conspicuously contemplative about exercising, at least in every context except launching drones.
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I struggle with technology. I think it doesn't like me because I think it knows I don't like it.
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I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.
