“I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff.” WayTryingUseStuffAttentionDeserveFocused Author:Natalie Portman
“Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn't deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and information is not?...Information is alienated experience.” IfsThinkingWantFirstsHumansSaidIdeasRealWholeSeemsEarthStuffAliveInformationAmbitionDeserveMereBrandsWhat IfFoundersArtifactsHuman Thought Book:You Are Not a Gadget Source: You Are Not a Gadget
“I was used to being disliked as a kid. Not that I didn't deserve it: I was a pretty sad and unappealing creature, and still am, I guess. It's sort of simplistic to think that one tries to make stuff that accounts for one's repulsiveness as a person, but there's some truth to it. So, when I read something unfavorable, I always take it deeply personally. It's as if my efforts have been in vain, and I should just quit.” IfsThinkingShouldTryingPersonsHas BeensStillsKidsUsedStuffEffortCreaturesDeserveAccountsQuittingVain Author:Chris Ware
“The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.” StuffWalksPoetWallPeriodsLateDeserveRedChineseCompareProseEmeralds Author:Brian Aldiss
“You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff? That's just not enough. Look at us all. What's the common assumption that got us all from there to here? What makes us deserve the ice cream and running shoes and wool Italian suits we have? I mean, I see all of us trying so hard to acquire so much stuff, but I can't help but feeling that we didn't merit it.” TryingLooksMeanI CanHardEnoughHelpingFeelingsRunningStuffCommonWonderMorningDeserveShoesSuitsGet UpIceBotherMeritAssumptionAcquireItalianCreamIce CreamWoolTrying So HardRunning Shoes Author:Douglas Coupland
“I think a lot of people feel like they may not get the recognition that they deserve, but that they can still kind of maintain and do good, and there's a kind of quiet satisfaction in not being recognized for stuff.” PeopleThinkingFeelsKindMayStillsStuffQuietDeserveSatisfactionRecognition Author:Abby Brammell
“There are some cities that are doing good stuff, but there aren't enough of them. If you don't fight for what you want, then you deserve what you get. And in politics, if you don't ask, you don't get at all.” IfsWantEnoughFightingAsksStuffCitiesDeserveWhat You WantDoing Good Author:Van Jones
“Snerdley is one of the most loyal employees. Snerdley believes that I have only received about 2% of the credit that I deserve for a whole bunch of stuff. So any time he gets a caller like you he’ll put you to the top.” BelieveWholeStuffLike YouDeserveCreditBunchEmployeeLoyal Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.” WorldFunnyStuffBearsLaughterJokesDeserveWeightEightCentsNinetyFunny StuffNinety Eight Author:Arthur Smith
“Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.” FormCultureStuffEnjoyTermForeverConditionsTaughtSucceedDeserveArmyAskingHeavenlyAttributesRapperEpicFormalBoastMiltonAsking Why Author:Zadie Smith
“I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.” PeopleIfsBelieveShowsStuffMoneyFireDeserveMilesExtrasTicketsEntertainersLightingExtra MileGood MoneyDeserve The BestGoing The Extra Mile Author:Bryan White
“Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.” PeopleGivingStuffDeserveMercy Author:Joyce Meyer
“We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.” PeopleWorldMadeEyeLanguageGivenNationsWishStuffSuccessfulTakenGreaterThis WorldTelevisionEternalWorshipDeservePraiseDelightRadicalObedienceRetirementSaviorVacationBowsMore MoneyThronesTribesPursued Author:David Platt