Brian Acton Quotes

The phone is one hundred, one hundred and ten years old. There was a middle period where the government had a broad ability to surveil, but if you look at human history in total, people evolved and civilizations evolved with private conversations and private speech.

Brian Acton

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One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.

John Dickerson

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In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in quotes.

Ann Dowd

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Every bit of knowledge we have demonstrates that there is a complete correlation between playing sports and success and potential for success. Playing sports is good for you physically, mentally, spiritually, psychologically.

John Skipper

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We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger.

Simon Helberg

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I get recognised a fair bit. It goes up when 'Peep Show' or the sketch show is on the telly or when we're doing loads of interviews.

Robert Webb

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I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

Lucy Hawking

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We hold that an employer is vicariously liable for actionable discrimination caused by a supervisor, but subject to an affirmative defense looking to the reasonableness of the employer's conduct as well as that of a plaintiff victim.

David Souter

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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Chinua Achebe

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Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

Christopher Fry

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The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

Brian Chesky

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So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

Christy Turlington

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In Cape Town, there's a drive from Cape Point to Camps Bay where the road is hewn out of the cliffs. It's just stunning, particularly if you do it as the sun is going down.

Sean Pertwee

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