Aaron Swartz Quotes

Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.

Aaron Swartz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 8, 1986 - January 11, 2013

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There are a lot of movies that I don't care about, especially not remakes.

John Carpenter

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I think I'm more muscular now than when I played football. I'm working hard on it. So many athletes just let themselves go after they stop competing. That was something I didn't want to do.

Jerry Rice

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Worrisome thoughts and their resulting feelings are a form of self strangulation. They not only strangle your emotions. They affect your physical life as well, and your ability to focus and get things done.

Andrew J. Bernstein

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The extraordinary context of 'Coriolanus' is that it's the first republic - it's the first attempt to create a society not ruled by a monarch. It changes the whole system, and you see how the establishment reacts to that, how they have disdain but play along - and you recognize this is the whole American republican system.

Robert Lepage

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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

John Stuart Mill

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I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg playing 'Thor' and I play Captain America.

Tom Hiddleston

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Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

Rose Wilder Lane

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There is something a little vulgar about writing a novel that is too close to the present, too concerned with current events, too eager to critique technological advancements.

Michelle Dean

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I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

Lou Doillon

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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Jean de la Bruyere

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In the first year in New York, I went to this amazing teacher named Jen Waldman. She does lots of different classes, but one of her classes was where you went and worked on a song. And suddenly I felt like an artist again, and because I had worked the whole song, when I went into the audition room, I could connect to something in the 16 bars.

Jonathan Groff

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We're really, like, big fans of Destiny's Child.

Ally Brooke

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