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Nicholas Stern Quotes

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: english
Birth: April 22, 1946

Topics

Opportunities Interesting Plan Career

It's very hard to be a playwright because it's very competitive.

Jesse Eisenberg

Hard Competitive Because Playwright

I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!

People Free Internet Enough Back

You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.

Day You Achieve Go Nothing Possible

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

Steven Spielberg

Myself Friends Momentum Shy Never

At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories.

Joshua Oppenheimer

World Trying Cinema Fantasy Fiction

Don't put wings on me; I am no angel.

I Am Me Angel Wings Am Put

Boxing is about hunger.

Boxing Hunger About

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Leader Job Throw Passes

What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.

Brian Behlendorf

Possible Open Implementation Source

If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.

Life Fight People Gun Legal Someone

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

Fame Claim Only Editor

What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.

Tim Berners-Lee

People Me I Can Ask Function

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