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“Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...”
Source : Lucy Grealy (1994). “Autobiography of a Face”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'”
Source : "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.
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“This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always be free. We make money through having advertisements and things like that.”
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“I miss the experience of walking into a record store and find old stuff without expecting to.”
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“I'm sure the mantelpiece of captaincy will suit Wayne”
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“[Buckminster] Fuller was an independent operator coming up with these madcap ways of combining things with absolutely no strings attached and the fact that world changing now is happening within the corporation by and large, and that disruption is ironically what corporations do.”
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“Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done...”
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“I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.”
Source : "Back with a bong" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2004.