Dave Winer Quotes

Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

Dave Winer

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I have a temperament that doesn't adapt well to politics. It's because I speak my mind so much.

Joaquim Barbosa

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I started when I was three, and on some courses they wouldn't let me play because they said I was too little. They wouldn't accept that a child could play. So my parents had to argue at times with some people at golf courses so I could.

Matteo Manassero

ChildParentsPeopleMeGolfPlay

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

Tom Jenkinson

MeEndAlwaysUpOnlyStuff

TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers.

Roger Avary

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In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Roger B. Taney

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In Hollywood, you're always playing roles... It's like going through the motions. But in real life, it's like, you gotta take care of business. It's not just the movies.

Mickey Rourke

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You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame. It's the media and the food industry: they've fed our panic around time.

Michael Pollan

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I look in the mirror, and I'm a plus-size girl, but I got it going on.

Chrissy Metz

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Champions all get kicked when they're down.

Apolo Ohno

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The idea that Area 51 was this test facility working to move science and technology faster and further than any other nation is true and is one of the great hallmarks of Area 51. There are other areas of the base that are controversial - but they both exist simultaneously - out there in the desert.

Annie Jacobsen

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I would try to be super-assertive in meetings and, you know, pound my hand off the table, and it never ended well. People would say, 'What are you beating the table for?' It's not natural for me.

Peggy Johnson

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In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

Timothy Noah

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