Craig Newmark Quotes
From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn't stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I'd ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it - and then ask for more feedback.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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It is not a coincidence that Fusion middleware and applications have the same name. We knew what we needed it to be.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.
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When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people to make progress, they have to get feedback and information on how they're doing.
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I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
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My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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My dad gave my brother and I a camera to film our football games when we were 10 years old so we could see how we could get better. Then one day, we decided to pick up the camera and film whatever we were doing.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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Black people are pledging their fealty to the state, and yet they aren't getting the same return. This is theft. It's systemized.
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Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.
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From the very beginning, I was involved in talking to people, listening to people. And it hasn't stopped. The idea was that people send me information; I'd ask them about it, listen, try to do something about it - and then ask for more feedback.
