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  • Most movie-goers are overdosing on star coverage; it's the ultimate example of too much information." -- Peter Bart
  • My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information." -- Nathan Fillion
  • Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money." -- Iris Dement
  • I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing." -- Rainn Wilson
  • We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away." -- Tiffany Madison
  • We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transformations in organizations - and in their lives." -- John P. Kotter
  • If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are." -- Alice Cooper
  • Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information." -- Neil Gaiman
  • When we start building perceptions based on our own experiences and judgements and not by the influence of fake media reports, that's the indication of our transformation into a mature society." -- Sukant Ratnakar
  • In 1989, I started the National Association of Business Women. We incorporated microfinance and different job training for women. We did a survey, with USAID, that found women lacked training, credit and information." -- Joyce Banda
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  • My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines." -- Nancy Duarte
  • If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems." -- Story Musgrave
  • For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. When I finally started working out to be healthier, I saw a transformation. I've even quit weighing myself so I don't obsess over the numbers." -- Judy Reyes
  • However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library." -- Richard Ernst
  • Overuse at best is needless clutter; at worst, it creates the impression that the characters are overacting, emoting like silent film stars. Still, an adverb can be exactly what a sentence needs. They can add important intonation to dialogue, or subtly convey information." -- Howard Mittelmark
  • If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it." -- Tao Lin
  • That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information." -- Julian Assange
  • If a change in our lives require individually or socially painful sacrifices, it will be difficult to put into effect no matter how necessary that change might be. However, if we start down the road of transformation with simple, enjoyable, and tangible changes, we will soon be prepared to tackle larger issues." -- Ilchi Lee
  • For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world." -- Robert Irwin
  • NancyAccording to astronomers, every atom in my body was forged in a star. I am made, they insist, of stardust. I am stardust braided into strands and streamers of information, proteins and DNA, double helixes of stardust. In every cell of my body there is a thread of stardust as long as my arm." -- Chet Raymo
  • But from the start I had withheld from him any information about the giant redwoods. It seemed to me that a Long Island poodle who had made his devoirs to Sequoia sempervirens or Sequoia gigantea might be set apart from other dogs--might even be like that Galahad who saw the Grail. The concept is staggering." -- John Steinbeck
  • Its a flash drive." When his only answer was a blank stare, I continuedIt holds information from a computer." He took the drive from me giving it a hard shake. When nothing came out, he proceded to tap it against the edge of the windowsillHow do we get the information out?" - Kale and Deznee - Touch" -- Jus Accardo
  • Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people." -- John Henrik Clarke
  • I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you." -- Chip Kidd
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