Site Quotes

• We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Moon, Somewhere Else, Numbers

  "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space". Book by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1976.

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• Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Life, Country

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.11, Harmony

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• I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Land, Rivers

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• People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Iran, Should Have, People

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• We have to make the physical music a little more valuable instead of just having a download link and a bunch of songs you downloaded from some torrent site. People try to make the music value-less, and I don't think we're going to stop that train, but the one thing that they can't devalue are things that are in the outside world.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Song, Thinking, People

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• There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Records, Months, Ancestry

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• I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.

  Frank Gehry

  Obvious Things, Car, Clients

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• With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.

  Colin Greenwood

  People, Want, Radiohead

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

  Jaron Lanier

  Networking, Fit, Social

  Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.21, Vintage

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• My web site is so fresh. The paint is still wet, but stay tuned, because I have lots of personal things, specifically about what is happening day-to-day, that I will keep updating daily.

  David Hasselhoff

  Paint, Stills, Personal Things

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• Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Beauty, Business, Technology

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• The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your website and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.

  Bill Keller

  Queens, Celebrity Gossip, Wings

  "The NYT versus the Huffington Post: a cat fight over kitten videos" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a sense that the site and the occasion demand a form of writing which goes beyond plain informative prose. Each word is so valued that the letters forming it are seen as objects of solemn beauty.

  James Fenton

  Writing, Eye, Demand

  "The eyes have it" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2002.

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• I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

  Roger Ebert

  Opportunity, Thinking, Self

  Interview With Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• My Web site, everything I write in there is from me.

  Fred Durst

  Writing

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• An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

  John Ashcroft

  Fbi Agents, People, Surfing

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• It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one.

  Sebastian Bach

  Easy, These Days

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• I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.

  Glenn Beck

  Running, Communication, Justice

  "Outraged by Glenn Beck's Salvo, Christians Fire Back" by Laurie Goodstein, www.nytimes.com. March 11, 2010.

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• We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

  Allan Bloom

  Beautiful, Civilization, Play

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

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• The World Trade Center site will forever hold a special place in our city, in our hearts. But we would be untrue to the best part of ourselves and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans if we said no to a mosque in lower Manhattan.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Heart, Cities, Forever

  Address in Support of Religious Tolerance and New York City Mosque, delivered 3 August 2010, Governors Island, New York

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• Each week I pack my bag and travel the country, I go to people who write me and tell me their problems. I appear whether at their house or at their job site or some neighborhood gathering. I come there and listen to their story and I get hands on as I say. I don t give advice, I give people hope, I build their self-esteem, I motivate 'em. I inspire them because that's what I do.

  Mr. T

  Country, Jobs, Self Esteem

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.

  James Buchan

  Years, Tasks, Three

  "A complete waste of energy". www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2002.

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• I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful.

  Nicolas Cage

  Beautiful, Austria, Sacred

  "Nicolas Cage Exclusive Interview SEASON OF THE WITCH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 3, 2011.

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• The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.

  Tony Curtis

  Mind, Twisted, Knows

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• Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.

  Zooey Deschanel

  College, Men, Funny Or Die

  "Zooey Deschanel: funny girl". Interview with Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2012.

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