Julian Baggini
Related I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand... NORMAN MACCAIG It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we g... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... JAY CHIAT CRAIG GROESCHEL GABE NEWELL For a listed building or something very unusual, you might need a specialist survey carried out by s... MELANIE BIEN To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap peop... CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancell... RENNY HARLIN DEYTH BANGER Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something.... LANE KIRKLAND People stand in line, waiting to get in to check out all the items. It's an incredible sight to see. BARBARA DISKIN If I can operate Google, I can find anything... Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like Go... ALAN COHEN JOHN NIVEN MEG WHITMAN Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I hav... ISRAEL BROUSSARD I try to travel as light as possible to avoid baggage issues. Los Angeles airport is notorious for b... KYLE MACLACHLAN There are a lot of people getting killed by guns in our country for reasons, from my understanding, ... JEFF BRIDGES RICHARD YATES Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or te... BOBBY CHARLTON ADAM WEST This is so complicated for the voter to understand. And you only have 30 seconds to make a pitch. JEFF KASKO CHANTAL SUTHERLAND You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 sec... BILL CALLAHAN It is somewhat unusual for conference sessions to completely sell-out, but I believe the demand for ... BETH BLAKE Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for ma... JOICHI ITO Waiting may seem in the way of us getting to where we want to go. But many times, it is through wait... DUKE ROHE (Almost) nobody loves you without at least a tiny bit of personal agenda. Respect to those who can l... MARIANA FULGER It's a lot bigger here. I don't like that. When you get out of class, there's so many people. There ... CHARLES PIERCE Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to peop... TIM O'REILLY Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us... MARK PAGEL I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out sho... ADAM CLAYTON We spent 30 years waiting for them to widen Lacey Road and now we are going to spend another 30 year... JOHN PARKER Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so ... KATE BECKINSALE I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing s... NATHAN KRESS FRANK A. CLARK That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and... PETER GARRETT DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF JASON BATEMAN That's the great thing about how 'SVU' works. They work with so many Broadway actors, th... DAVEED DIGGS CRAIG GROESCHEL I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music. MELISSA AUF DER MAUR Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to ... DAVEED DIGGS RUSSEL H. CONWELL TAKE A STAND RIGHT NOW! BECAUSE tomorrow IS THE ONLY DAY OF THE WEEK THAT NEVER COMES!! PHILIP T. M. Seventeen of us are going to sit down and talk about different stuff and hopefully get to hang out w... KASEY KAHNE People are using their in-boxes not only for messaging, but also for file storage. It's not unusual ... ANDRE CYR My strongest hope is for a cameo as a band playing in a club visited by the detectives on 'Law &... JOHN DARNIELLE CRAIG GROESCHEL Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, ... MARVIN HAMLISCH JOYCE RACHELLE I think each of our players is going into each game prepared to play 40 minutes. We've played so man... ALEXIS KENDRICK (Competing at the North Canton is) going to help us out a lot. Some of us were getting a little cock... ANTHONY DOTSON As soon as you start feeling like you can't trust the person and you need to check his phone or ... AUSTIN BUTLER The sad thing that many of us empaths don’t realize is that often our desire to heal others is a d... MATEO SOL BRENE BROWN JAMES ALTUCHER Patience is the the quality as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without c... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA CRAIG GROESCHEL STURGILL SIMPSON STEVEN TYLER LAUREN DESTEFANO We set our goals for so many years so high. Some time or another we knew that it was going to knock ... BILL HENTZLER Everybody's enamored of the iPhone, the Google phone. But the applications are going to change. ... TIM O'REILLY I love killing penalties. I don't like to see us get them, but when we do, it gives me a chance to g... MATT FARLEY JAN KOUM In 30 seconds, we went from getting ready to call the MPs to everyone shaking hands. BILL SUMMERS ASHWIN SANGHI I can't remember how to cry. SHERMAN ALEXIE Teams can shut you down if they get a lead and then they check, check, check, check, check. Well if ... MIKE BABCOCK For a workout, I love to hike or take a long walk. Being outside is crucial; I can't stand gyms. ALICE GRECZYN BILL BRADLEY MARIE OSMOND EDDIE REDMAYNE I have 30 seconds to tell you I have been waiting 60 years to get on this stage. RAY WALSTON MIRANDA LAMBERT I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always ... CARLY POPE If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so t... JOAN HALIFAX You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in ... ALISON JACKSON He's always positive and never complained about playing time. He's always playing hard whether its t... DAN DALTON There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren't really maximizin... GREG FITZSIMMONS RICHARD BRANSON CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH For wellbeing to take hold, it's got to be something that individual team members are getting ex... TOM RATH I honestly can remember that it wasn't unusual for him to go two or three weeks without making a bog... DAVID LUCAS Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the ... DEIDRE HALL AMITABH BACHCHAN ADAM CAROLLA The Google Voice service is a lifesaver for me. My actual phone number changes a lot, so having a ca... MATT MULLENWEG CRAIG GROESCHEL CHARLES CALEB COLTON The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a... OCTAVIA SPENCER VIGGO MORTENSEN CRAIG GROESCHEL Some of (the young people) have been exposed to a culture that suggests that in order to have fun yo... BENJAMIN JONES Some of (the young people) have been exposed to a culture that suggests that in order to have fun yo... BENJAMIN JONES MARIANNE WILLIAMSON CHESTY PULLER KHALED HOSSEINI JON KRAKAUER
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JULIAN BOND JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN LENNON JULIAN ASSANGE To rally every black sheep is my goal. JULIAN COPE Acting has been gentrified. It's become part of the bourgeoisie. But there was a time when it wo... JULIAN SANDS Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear brig... JULIAN SCHNABEL The only way to stay competitive is offer something the market doesn't have. AL JULIAN The employees are the ones who really make it work here. AL JULIAN We're now competing with eastern Europe, China, Korea, competing with Turkey and competing with plac... AL JULIAN The machines here have unique advantages over others in the market and you also see our prices are v... AL JULIAN It's killing us. They've told us to run business as usual, but it's not that simple. AL JULIAN JULIAN ASSANGE The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life. 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JULIAN ROBERTSON JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BARNES Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody! JULIAN CASABLANCAS I want to step up our voter-registration activities. Not every branch does it, and not all the time.... JULIAN BOND JULIAN LENNON JULIAN BARNES I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors... JULIAN FELLOWES I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series. JULIAN FELLOWES JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BARNES JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN CASTRO JULIAN BARNES My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not s... JULIAN BARBOUR JULIAN CASTRO If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth.... JULIAN SANDS JULIAN CASTRO All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is fa... 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JULIAN SMITH I just wanted to make sure that the team didn't feel like, 'Oh, woe is me' after last week. That's w... JULIAN PETERSON JULIAN BARNES I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising. JULIAN CASABLANCAS JULIAN ASSANGE JULIAN ASSANGE I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intr... JULIAN OVENDEN I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. S... JULIAN CASABLANCAS JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BARNES JULIAN BARNES I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll j... JULIAN CASABLANCAS If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall... JULIAN SCHNABEL
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Waiting so long... for 0 result? 
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You can't play Batman in a serious, square-jawed, straight-ahead way without giving the audience... 
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A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them. 
Our eyeball hours are scarce, indeed. That's why Google wants us to do as much as possible onlin... 
Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script calle... 
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. 
Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out a... 
Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live. 
'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that... 
You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without f... 
The art is what can't be put on a timeline. You can't say, 'Well, I'm going to make ... 
I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't b... 
There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn'... 
Our phones are so intimately connected to us, to our lives. Putting advertising on a device like tha... 
The average human attention span was 12 seconds in 2000 and 8 seconds in 2013. A drop of 33%. The sc... 
In 30 seconds you can say a lot, 
You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yoursel... 
When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition ... 
If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do? 
Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and i... 
While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For witho... 
I don't know how others think about me, but if I have to walk the streets, I will, and if I need... 
I think we're getting to the point where everyone's getting fat and everyone's getting a... 
Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... 
Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us ... 
I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being i... 
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see i... 
What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any m... 
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something ex... 
But some things are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself. 
Yesterday's news feeds our fear that our neighbours are more likely than not to be bad eggs: ben... 
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I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even ... 
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery ... 
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If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature. 
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To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though... 
The English like eccentrics. They just don't like them living next door. 
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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behav... 
I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antoni... 
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