- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things Quotes
The little word that covers everything.
"Things" is a catch-all, and the quotes collected here reflect that — a former mathematician recalling early academic interests, artists describing what inspires them, and honest admissions about not knowing what you want to become. For more on that last theme, see Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends would probably describe me as silly. And honest. And that I think about things a bit too much.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you.
- Distribute
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The routers get involved in this and they know that on the path between this router and that router a certain percentage of the bandwidth is reserved to these things and a certain percentage of it is allowed on a first come first served basis.
- Greed
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I think was a really lucky coincidence was that a lot of the themes of 'Okja' are things I write about a lot: cognitive dissonance and corporate greed and also the internal politics of fringe groups.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
And my career, the things that have happened have happened because of my music education background.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more akin to things like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, possibly. But when I'm making solo electronic music, techno stuff is just the most exciting form of rhythm.
- Nov 07, 2020