"I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work that went into it, not just my work but everybody else's and the research and so forth, there's a sense of really have done something worthwhile."

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Source : "Paul Allen: He talks Trail Blazers, Microsoft, 'The Social Network'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. April 19, 2011.

Paul Allen

#Book Quotes #Research Quotes #Tangible Quotes

“Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.”
“When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!”
“As a longtime career guy, I like quiet diplomacy behind closed doors. This is not what we're getting with Donald Trump. At the end of the day, it's what America does, how people perceive us, in the long run, our reliability and such, and, thirdly, the personal relationships presidents have with their counterparts. The tweeting and some of the explosive conversations can hurt the third and can have an impact on the second, but, in the end, what we really should focus on is the policies. Some of them have been bad, the rollout of the immigration ban. Others, we have to wait and see.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.”
“They were like two pieces of a failed star, drawn together by a shared history and a memory of illicit kisses.”
“Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.”
“When I look back at my paintings, they don't give me a sense of where I was when I first met that guy. They don't give me a sense of what I felt like when I first saw that original source material. They give me a sense of the world that I'm trying to create. And we all just have to deal with that.”
“People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.”

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