Philip Greenspun
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College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I&... 
And I didn't grow up wanting to be a director. I grew up wanting to be a writer, so for me, that... 
I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so h... 
I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just ... 
My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done... 
I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to... 
All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading... 
I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn... 
I was doing shows and flying economy, and nobody ever fed me. Or I'd be staying in hotels so che... 
I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time. 
I had to act in a school play when I was about ten years old. I really didn't want to do it. But... 
If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, an... 
I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at... 
I have great ideas, but the follow through is always really difficult for me. As my kid gets a littl... 
I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think... 
I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand... 
Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what stree... 
I didn't have money to eat when I was 21. When I was short on cash, I would sometimes scam food ... 
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri... 
I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity... 
The truth of why I used to listen to Arrested Development on my Walkman was because if I didn't,... 
I don't have the luxury of sitting around any more. I must have had bags of spare time before I ... 
If I probably didn't have tattoos, or if I probably didn't bleach my hair, or if I probably ... 
I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn&#... 
I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn'... 
I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn... 
I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as ... 
I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wis... 
If you go back to the history of the 'Madden' game, I was probably on the cover of it half t... 
I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had... 
I can't remember a time when I didn't love fashion. As a child, I was always particular abou... 
So far, the biggest regret I have in regards to the world of 'Red Queen' is that I didn'... 
I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was ... 
I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my... 
We didn't have a backyard, so as I child, I would turn the coffee table into a stage and put on ... 
I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It&#... 
And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish so... 
I think my parents recognised that I'd always wanted to be a writer, and so they didn't thin... 
If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I... 
Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn&#... 
I know I could have a better public image if I were less open, if I ducked more issues and didn'... 
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With every song that I write, I compare it to the Beatles. The thing is, they only got there before ... 
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I always had ambitions to work in the U.K. I just never thought it was gonna happen so soon. So I th... 
I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance... 
I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little gi... 
I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I&... 
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I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have ... 
I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survive... 
I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&... 
I'm in the retail business, not the circus business. 
You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ... 
We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tige... 
Either I will find a way, or I will make one. 
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. 
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v... 
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi... 
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species... 
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion 
All this, and Heaven too! 
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what ... 
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos... 
Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in y... 
The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. 
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't ... 
Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers
Of such as do offend, make less the sin. 
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the bru... 
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly whe... 
You cannot change what you are, only what you do. 
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willi... 
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. 
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the... 
All architects want to live beyond their deaths. 
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When in doubt, delete it. 
We do pretty much whatever we want to. 
It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same. 
I had always imagined that Clich? was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxf... 
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. 
But fame is theirs - and future days
My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't design... 
ARCHITECTURE, n: The art of how to waste space. 
Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many ... 
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. 
Moments of complete apathy are the best for new creations. 
I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. Th... 
Jesus of Nazareth, without money and arms, conquered more millions than Alexander, Caesar, Mahomet, ... 
Ill news, madam,
Are swallow-winged, but what's good
Walks on crutches. 
The greatest grand challenge for any scientist is discovering how to prevent the spread of HIV and f... 
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. 
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. 
The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded. 
I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing. 
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. 
It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world. 
I wanted to become a mathematician, physicist or astronomer. 
In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, ... 
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on th... 