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Steve Mann Quotes

There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1962

Topics

Life Live People Me My Life Own

You can always find a reason to say no. It's the easiest vote. It's also not exactly a red badge of courage.

Courage Red You Find Say Vote

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

Hope Lesson Will Human Rights Give

I'm riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half-pipe snowboarding. I'm fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I'm also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

Fear Sports Moment Snowboarding

In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn't see problems, even. At the federal level, it's often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it's just not local that. It's win-win-win.

Government Win Game Problems Problem

'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind.

Clayton M. Christensen

People Trying Powerful Now Want Way

As an actor, depending on who you are, you might be stopped on the street and might not get all the privacy you want, but I'd rather have that than no human connection whatsoever.

Asa Butterfield

You Connection Privacy Want Street

When I was growing up, my parents thought there could be nothing better than being a writer. And at that time, society afforded that impracticality.

Time Parents Growing Up Society Up

Green vegetables are something that fascinate chefs; the ability to keep vegetables green. How do we keep them green? What makes them green? Why are they green? And then that sort of army green. Why do they go from bright vibrant electric green to army green, and how can we avoid that?

Green Army Vegetables Go Why Bright

There is nothing unhealthy about educating youngsters about nutrition.

Nothing Nutrition Youngsters About

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

Penelope Wilton

Yourself People You Hide Person Out

Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.

Leader Job Philosophy Go Need Get

What genre it falls under is only of interest later.

Interest Only Genre Later Falls

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