Ernest Cline Quotes

I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.

Ernest Cline

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That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to hip music - but it's just blues twisted a new way - while I'm playing for the college kid's parents.

Joe Bonamassa

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My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.

Jennifer Garner

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I am fascinated by the idea of employing beautiful images as a device to convey something extremely disturbing in an apparently harmless way.

Maurizio Cattelan

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Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.

Jeffrey Gitomer

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Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.

Steve Albini

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At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

Stephen Breyer

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With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that.

Sonia Sotomayor

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I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

Michelle Trachtenberg

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I auditioned for Lamorne Morris' part, Winston, on 'New Girl.' In the scene, the character was eating a mayonnaise sandwich. I thought, 'Nobody else is going to go into the audition eating, and this is how I'm gonna set myself apart.'

Jay Ellis

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To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

Janet Yellen

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The time has come to formulate guidelines for the ethical conduct of scientist, perhaps in the form of a voluntary Hippocratic Oath.

Joseph Rotblat

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Thanks to iCloud and other services, the choice of a phone or tablet today may lock a consumer into a branded silo, making it hard for him or her to do what Apple long importuned potential customers to do: switch.

Jonathan Zittrain

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