Clinton Sparks Quotes
I'm from Boston - everyone says 'awesome,' but there are a lot of people in Boston who say 'awesome.'
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
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I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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I needed it to have experiences I could write about. I thought I was someone who had nothing to say.
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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
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Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.
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When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.
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I'm from Boston - everyone says 'awesome,' but there are a lot of people in Boston who say 'awesome.'
