John Battelle Quotes

Obama will win the 2012 election, thanks in part to the tech community rallying behind him due to issues like SOPA, visas, and free speech.

John Battelle

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CommunityWinFreeSpeechElection

I knew I had arrived when taxi drivers would say, 'You're that twit on the Billy Cotton Show, aren't you?'

Jeremy Lloyd

YouSayCottonTaxiShowWould

I've done second leads in movies, I've done really small roles, too. Other actors never bother me, I believe I'm decent enough to make my own place.

Anita Hassanandani Reddy

MeSmallBelieveEnoughPlaceDone

The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God.

Stellan Skarsgard

GoodGodBibleNiceChildishBeing

I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing.

Sonya Walger

DayGratefulHappyWeddingDoing

As a woman, you need to take control of your health. There's no harm in going in and getting checked out. Eventually, you have to ask yourself: 'Do I want to live at 100% or 80%?'

Summer Sanders

LiveHealthWomanYourselfControl

When we first started, and I jumped in this band, I was like, 'I'm not a singer.' I didn't go to school to sing. I just played to have fun. But these guys teach me, and they show me stuff and give me courage to try new stuff.

Sonny Sandoval

CourageSchoolFunMeHave FunNew

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit evolved from a very simple mechanism for decoding basic information, like the number of goats in one's herd, to the present, highly elaborated reading brain.

Maryanne Wolf

WorkSimpleBrainReadingPresent

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

WisdomKnowledgeMenWiseCannot

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Milton Friedman

WorkTaxesSystemIncreasingly

I was born in L.A., but raised in New York.

Lucien Smith

New YorkBornNewI Was BornRaised

Love isn't just a feeling: it's an action.

Percelle Ascott

LoveActionFeelingJust

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of any deal that's better for me, and I'm always so grateful that readers have indulged me as I argue with myself in my stories.

Ken Liu

WorkMyselfGratefulMeBetterWay

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