Clifford Stoll Quotes
While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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Collaboration is just, really, a group of people getting in a room with their eye on a very similar prize and wanting to come out with the same show. The director, ultimately, is the guy in front of whom the buck stops. So, he has to have the courage to prevail. But, he has got to have a huge amount of respect for his collaborators.
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There's consciousness in my music, and my music comes from a conscious place. And when people say that, I certainly take it as a compliment. But my job, in terms of selling my music, is to be universal and to try to get it to everybody.
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I get really nervous when people are like, 'I saw you in a trailer! I saw you on TV!' Genuinely, my cheeks get red.
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We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my generation. We do our own research. Marketing research companies, I think, are relatively academic.
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We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.
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Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
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One of the most common reasons people renovate their homes is a change in their lifestyle - an upcoming wedding, a new baby, or grown children moving away.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
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I think of our readers as young, conscious people. We can't underestimate how far-reaching our content is, especially these days.
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Gcc is crap.
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I have a lot of great fans. A lot of fans have cosplayed as Sweet Tooth, which I thought was really cool.
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While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.
