The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The Internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.
Tom Hodgkinson
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU there is a huge difference between giving what you get and getting what you give REZA FARIVAR One thing about English-language bookstores in the age of Amazon is that it assumes that everybody h... DAVID SEDARIS It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK We give you access to the real Internet. Most phone browsers don't do that. They give you access to ... JON VON TETZCHNER I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won... ORSON WELLES So if you are a superb customer on the Internet or visit our Boston store all the time -- we'll know... HARRY KUBETZ True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back ... SHANNON L. ALDER You must do what you WANT, not what you feel you NEED to do. In the end, its what you want which mak... CHARLIE JAMES The exciting new thing, call it Internet.2, would be where links were updated and moved depending on... DAVE ROWNTREE They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisti... LARRY ELLISON My favorite thing about guitar, and the thing that always drew me to it when I was first learning to... CHARLIE WORSHAM You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you g... STEVE JOBS It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building comp... STEVE JOBS The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON Advice is the easiest thing to give and often the hardest thing to receive. When you need it, and ot... JAMES A. MURPHY If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, an... DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and wh... YOUNG THUG I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a ... OSCAR ISAAC The one thing about internet language, people join it, and what quickly evolves is an 'internet ... DAVID CRYSTAL To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you ... TOM LEHMAN Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share... VINT CERF You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thi... CHUCK YEAGER I think people respond to dystopian stories because they're ways of acting out anxieties that we... SUZANNE COLLINS You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it. JAMES C. DOBSON No hot guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention w... JANDY NELSON In life, it is not a case of what you want but more like what you would like in a case of any decisi... GARY F EVANS... Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others. WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to ... ADRIANA TRIGIANI What we're saying to people is 'Look, we'll wipe that (Internet access) cost out for you, but make y... PAUL GOODMAN I just want to tell you what it's like not to have Planned Parenthood... you have to give your k... GWEN MOORE What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for... FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands... AARON SORKIN If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with... GISELE BUNDCHEN The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they ar... OREN PELI What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas i... VINT CERF What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you bot... JODI PICOULT You can't gaze in the crystal ball and see the future. What the Internet is going to be in the f... BOB KAHN Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information prev... PETER SINGER With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about yo... CAPRICE BOURRET The internet thing is what I have the greatest problem with. I don't know if anyone in the media... GERRY HARVEY I don't know what's around the corner for the US. I'm hopeful it'll not be what we deserve. BOBBY W. MILLER Who you know only gets you in the door; what you know gets you the keys to the house. GINA GREENLEE How do you love your children? By doing what's best for them. Then how would you love your... J. GRANT HOWARD What they want, of course, isn't what you can give them. What you're selling is the hope you can. ROSAMUND HODGE Ian " she said quietly "I'd rather die than go back to you." "Be careful what you ask for you ... AMANDA STEPHAN Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the the... AL LOPEZ Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won... DAVE BARRY You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's ... OLIVIA D'ABO You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing els... WENTWORTH MILLER When you come out, they automatically want to say what you are and compare you to somebody. They wan... CIARA HARRIS They talk themselves out of everything else, there's nothing else but you and the information you wa... JAMES MCBRIDE The most important thing is being passionate about what you're doing and always give it your all... CHARLIE WHITE The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize ... WHITNEY OTTO It's much like playing jazz, flying. It's multitasking in real time. You have a number of in... AARON DIEHL I love going into the centre of London because people don't give a monkey's about you or who... TEDDY SHERINGHAM Feminism rotates between backlash and interest. And the cool thing about the Internet is that it'... KATHLEEN HANNA It's crazy all the dreams you have about what you want to do, how you want to do it, and when yo... BJ THE CHICAGO KID What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it. CRAIG GROESCHEL You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you c... MICHAEL LEE-CHIN It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the qualit... MARY DIXON THAYER Pianos - if they don't like what you're saying, then they won't talk back to you. And yo... JASON MORAN In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. CECIL PARKINSON If something's gonna make you happy, and you know it's gonna make you happy, and it's wh... BRETT YOUNG Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from D... EDGAR BRONFMAN, JR. The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation un... LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. The one thing you've gotta do is that you need to always do the best you can do, no matter what ... JAMES CORDEN Wanting something badly even though it could hurt you," Bentley repeated. He looked up at the ceilin... NELLIE CHRISTINE If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give yo... CAITLYN JENNER The thing about being selfish is that you don't care if someone is at your feet begging you to stay ... MIA ASHER You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talkin... DANA BRUNETTI A word of advice: your interview is about you. It's not about the school you went to, what you m... IVANKA TRUMP I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can'... D. J. COTRONA If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its p... RALPH MERKLE I didn't realize the ceiling that I had, and I don't think a lot of players understand what ... BEN ZOBRIST Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't ... DAN O'BRIEN I didn't care at all about losing, but I just didn't want Emerson to feel bad, You know, I d... TERI HATCHER Internet governance is an oxymoron. The Internet must govern itself. But you can't play cricket ... KAPIL SIBAL You don't need to get what you want, to be happy; but you do need to be happy, to get what you want" ODILLE RAULT You can't trust the internet. NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN The best thing a coupon does is that it helps track who's been to the Internet. A lot of customers w... BRYAN HOPKINS The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all condi... WALTER ALSTON You have to give them you until you is what they want. SHARON STONE the nurse smiled and patted my arm. “Don’t give up yet. Sometimes when we think God has written ... RACHEL VAN DYKEN I hope that what you give me comes not from your surplus but it is the fruit of a sacrifice made for... MOTHER TERESA You can't chase everybody on the Internet who's saying stuff about you, that's for sure. BOBBY FLAY The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialec... 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