- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Someone Quotes
On the someones who shape a moment.
This page includes praise for a steady presence who doesn't panic under pressure, and a note on a fictional character built to feel relatable even in impossible circumstances. For similar reflections, see Know.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Want
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published, and you don't say it again. If someone comes and gives a scholarly paper about something they've already published, that's just terrible. As a university president, you have to say the same thing over and over and over.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down.
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing point guard is someone's instincts. They're used to that. That's my instincts.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020