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NICK DENTON

I've never really understood people who climb socially by sucking up. It seems like the least ef...
NICK DENTON

There was a rivalry - and some pie-throwing. But that was probably because Gawker and Radar had more...
NICK DENTON

It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. ...
NICK DENTON

Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks ...
NICK DENTON

My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or eve...
NICK DENTON

You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web...
NICK DENTON

Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop ...
NICK DENTON

We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself:...
NICK DENTON

Critics say Internet advertising suffers from limitless inventory, which depresses prices. These exc...
NICK DENTON

As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story d...
NICK DENTON

Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it...
JAMES DENTON

The theory of phlogiston was an inversion of the true nature of combustion. Removing phlogiston was ...
MICHAEL DENTON

The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that s...
MICHAEL DENTON

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
ANDREW DENTON

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was th...
JAMES DENTON

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of...
ANDREW DENTON

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
ANDREW DENTON

Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay...
ANDREW DENTON

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.
ANDREW DENTON

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.
ANDREW DENTON

[Perhaps his response had something to do with Denton's assessment of Latham, as given on Triple M l...
ANDREW DENTON

Well, I'm not planning to, no.
ANDREW DENTON

Why do the French keep testing the damn things? Surely they know what happens by now. You press a bu...
ANDREW DENTON

And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal the...
JAMES DENTON

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it w...
ANDREW DENTON

The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.
JAMES DENTON

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.
ANDREW DENTON

I've become a much more serious young insect.
ANDREW DENTON

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live ...
JAMES DENTON

That's a major blow to his candidacy and campaign. He needed something dramatic some new dynamic has...
ROBERT DENTON

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.
JAMES DENTON

Is he a plumber, a detective - who knows. It's so confusing.
JAMES DENTON

It slows down grocery shopping, because so many women at the store watch the show. I always end up t...
JAMES DENTON

Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacteri...
MICHAEL DENTON

Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life a...
MICHAEL DENTON

To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a ...
MICHAEL DENTON

In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the...
MICHAEL DENTON

This is the best offensive team we'll see for awhile, maybe all year, ... I think they're going to b...
DENTON FOX

It's safe, people have family values.
DENTON BAILEY

I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.
JAMES DENTON

I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.
JAMES DENTON

We're not sure what is going to happen when it goes away.
DENTON SANTARELLI

We'll be right down toward the end of the year.
DENTON SANTARELLI

I mean, we had a freshman quarterback in there, ... They all did a great job.
DENTON FOX

We did what we had to do. We had our guys really blocking, the guys up front really came off the bal...
DENTON FOX

Turnovers really hurt us tonight. I think that's part of being a young football team and what kept u...
DENTON FOX

That hurt us. Looking back that probably would have been the difference in the ball game. We had a c...
DENTON FOX

We played a great defensive game. We played with a lot of intensity and a lot of effort. These guys ...
DENTON FOX

That's going to be a strength for us. We're real solid there. They're young but they're doing a good...
DENTON FOX

They've got a lot of speed on defense and it showed. We knew that going in but seeing it out on the ...
DENTON FOX

We had way too many turnovers last week. That's something we focused on this week. Our offense is ge...
DENTON FOX

We're trying to get their intensity level up. It's something I've done for awhile and the kids seem ...
DENTON FOX

I wouldn't mind living some place like this that is still kind of rural.
DENTON BAILEY

I'm thinking about going to West Point so I liked the military history part of it.
DENTON BAILEY

The bible says you gotta love them if you're going to heaven but sometimes my love is wearing real t...
FRANK DENTON

They wanted me in on this and I would not get in on this because I didn't think it was legal.
FRANK DENTON

I think Mr. Nichols is going to win the election. It was a good race, and everyone ran hard, and I w...
FRANK DENTON

I've been a friend of Charlie Ray's a long time and he's still very much my friend. He got pulled in...
FRANK DENTON

I don't think it is appropriate to drag in the other candidates. I don't have any intention of signi...
FRANK DENTON

I had legal opinions that I didn't have to resign, but I resigned to avoid an appearance of conflict...
FRANK DENTON

I didn't like sitting in the stand, that's for sure. I wanted to make adjustments but had to let thi...
EDDIE DENTON

I'm confident that the players won't be distracted by the cameras. They know it's just an experiment...
EDDIE DENTON

It was a very pleasing performance. Clark Masters was called into action just the once and we were p...
EDDIE DENTON

We're not a good enough team not to have everybody working hard,
ERIC DENTON

We have a mishmash of players this year, ... No one knew who we were to start the season, but ask al...
ERIC DENTON

Those teams are playing for their jobs, which makes it even harder to play against them ... because ...
ERIC DENTON

You definitely have to give the organization, coaches and GM (Charlie Wright) credit for bringing in...
ERIC DENTON

I'm running to serve the citizens of the communities from Bluff City to Kingsport and the areas in b...
HOYT DENTON

In my own mind I think it would be appropriate for me to resign from the BMA. I expect that to be ha...
HOYT DENTON

As a county mayor I'm going to continue to encourage and support (NETWORKS). I think my influence as...
HOYT DENTON

Yeah, I know! I need a romantic storyline.
JAMIE DENTON

CMT and MTV are getting in the movie business. They shot one with Toby Keith. They want to do anothe...
JAMIE DENTON

In this episode, it picks up that they did date some and he stopped calling Reba and you found out w...
JAMIE DENTON

As a star on TV's hottest show,
JAMES DENTON

I sat right up there in the upper deck, ... I was not on field-worthy at that time. I'm still not su...
JAMES DENTON

My wife is really unhappy with my agent. But I'm the big winner.
JAMES DENTON

I never really knew when it was on. It kind of came and went without me noticing. I've never been a ...
JAMES DENTON

The series has a real audacity right down to the title. You realize the title is as tongue-in-cheek ...
JAMES DENTON

I think that's the kind of thing you have to chip away at. I think, eventually, people will go, 'Oh,...
JAMES DENTON

Hey, Ricardo. Did you have anything?
JAMES DENTON

With a show like 'Desperate Housewives,' one of the benefits is you get to turn it into charity thin...
JAMES DENTON

We saw the aerial photos this morning and that's when it really hit home, the devastation, ... I thi...
JAMES DENTON

Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the f...
DENTON COOLEY

The folks in this room are passionate. And that's what's going to keep us moving forward.
KATHIE DENTON

We want to make sure we're not discharging people into homelessness.
KATHIE DENTON

This is the first step in working with the 10-year plan. I think we did an excellent job breaking it...
KATHIE DENTON

Californians, especially parents, would not willingly fill their homes with motor vehicle exhaust, a...
JOAN DENTON

We came out here and coach told us it was going to be a tough game and their team made comments abou...
MIKE DENTON

I've been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about.
JAMES DENTON

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that ...
JAMES DENTON

Because if we were all the same, then we would all share the same weaknesses.
NICK

Being scared is simply fear of incompetence.
NICK

One, two, three, Im gon be crazy and free.
NICK

We are greatly concerned about the Pentagon's investigation of a UCSC campus protest of military rec...
UCSC CHANCELLOR DENICE DENTON

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.
NICK CANNON

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form o...
NICK CANNON

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them be...
NICK CANNON

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of eve...
NICK CANNON

Real men change diapers!
NICK CANNON

Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say ...
NICK CANNON

I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in ...
NICK CANNON

I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going.
NICK CANNON

Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.
NICK CANNON

Hunger is a deep concern of mine, and I feel that no one should go without food in this world as lon...
NICK CANNON

You have to be vigorous. That's the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dream...
NICK CANNON

I was 16 years old, driving to LA, and sleeping in my car, just trying to make it happen.
NICK CANNON

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.
NICK CANNON

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to ...
NICK CANNON

One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the...
NICK CANNON

So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of...
NICK CANNON

I think I'm actually built for fatherhood. I love to have a good time and play, but at the same ...
NICK CANNON

Mariah is a beautiful and talented person, and I've had a crush on her for as long as I can reme...
NICK CANNON

I think my kids give mommy more attention than they give me.
NICK CANNON

People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm prob...
NICK CANNON

The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's differ...
NICK JONAS

You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing ...
NICK NOLTE

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Eu...
NICK CLEGG

Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspec...
NICK CLEGG

I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.
NICK MASON

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of the...
NICK DAVIES

To me, a forever love is a bond that can't be broken.
NICK CANNON

I've just been away for a week, and I dropped my BlackBerry in the sea while I was messing aroun...
NICK CLEGG

In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I r...
NICK KROLL

I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of ...
NICK JONAS

I will not accept a new wave of fiscal retrenchment, of belt-tightening, without asking people at th...
NICK CLEGG

I'm an old rock and roll buff. I love Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
NICK CARTER

Fantasy football has changed how I watch football because now every game is interesting start to fin...
NICK KROLL

Things that burn very brightly, we wonder how long they can keep burning.
NICK WOODMAN

I am a passionate believer in freedom of speech. I would not support anything which would impinge on...
NICK CLEGG

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
NICK RICHARDSON

People who are feeling bullied and people who feel like outsiders should talk to their parents and g...
NICK JONAS

Joining the Liberal Party was a no-brainer for me... And when you are a young man, you don't get...
NICK CLEGG

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.
NICK HANAUER

I usually get down with a little Violent Femmes in the summer. You know, 'Blister In The Sun....
NICK ROBINSON

Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel ove...
NICK SAGAN

I do public appearances. I'm bluff, hearty, goofy. I wear loud clothes, and I read the funny bit...
NICK HARKAWAY

When it blows here, even the seagulls walk.
NICK FALDO

The U.S. has taken an active role in wars from Libya to the Central African Republic, sent special o...
NICK TURSE

At training, I consider myself a bit of a morale booster. I take a pack of lollies just to boost the...
NICK CUMMINS

I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this en...
NICK HARKAWAY

I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a little bit like refusing ...
NICK HORNBY

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.
NICK HERTL

You know, even working actors can end up having a lot of spare time. And you can either go sit at th...
NICK OFFERMAN

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
NICK GORSKI

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be &...
NICK MORAN

I wish I was a cool guy and could drink coffee black, but I put almond milk and raw cane sugar in it...
NICK KROLL

Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way...
NICK HARKAWAY

So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The com...
NICK BILTON

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree viole...
NICK HORNBY

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that...
NICK HORNBY

Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from be...
NICK TROUT

It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close...
NICK TROUT

People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what ...
NICK HARKAWAY

As I live life, I believe that the highest value I, and anyone who is ready, able and willing, is to...
NICK CATRICALA

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to wher...
NICK HORNBY

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
NICK HORNBY

The word is control. That's my ultimate -- to have control.
NICK FALDO

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.
NICK NUESSLE

With rivers as with good friends, you always feel better for a few hours in their presence; you alwa...
NICK LYONS

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.
NICK NOLTE

Magic isn't done; it's only just begun!
NICK NEWBERRY

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our dispos...
NICK HORNBY

If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's...
NICK DIPAOLO

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
NICK DIAMOS

Modernism isn't a design ethos any more, it's an economy of scale, and a marketing tool to sell the ...
NICK HARKAWAY

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without a...
NICK HARKAWAY

Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to d...
NICK WOODMAN

We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've ...
NICK ROBINSON

I'm developing more stuff in my voice, more Nick Swardson. It's me as myself in a sense and ...
NICK SWARDSON

I think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have ...
NICK WOODMAN

In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people woul...
NICK HARKAWAY

I wrote the first draft of 'Tigerman' while my wife was pregnant - needless to say, I was re...
NICK HARKAWAY

Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite ...
NICK CLOONEY

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing...
NICK CLOONEY

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be pas...
NICK BOSTROM

If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they're rarely at peace wit...
NICK KROLL

I was inspired by how Red Bull isn't about the drink; it isn't about the product or the can....
NICK WOODMAN

I just work - however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I'm waiting for ac...
NICK CANNON

Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you're in and ...
NICK CANNON

My thoughts on gay marriage are that everyone has the right to love and be loved, and that's the...
NICK JONAS

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.
NICK JOHNSON

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing th...
NICK CAVE

The rock star is dying. And it's a small tragedy. Rock stars have blogs now. I have no use for t...
NICK CAVE

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information a...
NICK CAVE

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the ...
NICK CAVE

I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I...
NICK CAVE

I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.
NICK CAVE

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.
NICK CAVE

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful c...
NICK CAVE

I was reading The Bible a lot through my 20s, mostly the Old Testament, just because I was knocked o...
NICK CAVE

I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television i...
NICK CAVE

I think it's a part of us as human beings that we search outside of ourselves for meaning.
NICK CAVE

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom yo...
NICK CAVE

There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem ...
NICK CAVE

'Inspiration' is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything.
NICK CAVE

Most of the time, feelings just seem to get in the way. They're a luxury for the idle, a bourgeo...
NICK CAVE

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always b...
NICK CAVE

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
NICK CAVE

I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
NICK CAVE

The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.

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The idea of harnessing the intelligence of the readership has been lost in the quest for Facebook likes. For many, readers have become synonymous with hateful commenters. It's time for a renewed push to realize some of the original dreams of the web.

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