Abraham Flexner Quotes
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
Damien Hirst -
When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
Kapil Sibal -
Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
Balaji Srinivasan -
I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
Sam Hunt -
It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
Taylor Dye -
Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
Lata Mangeshkar
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
Wallace Shawn -
Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
Sam Shepard -
There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm an honest, open father.
T.I. -
I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
Laura Dern
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
Umberto Eco -
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce Cream -
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
Iris Murdoch -
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
Nancy Gibbs -
I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
Zooey Deschanel -
You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
Jack Black
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
Malcolm Wilson -
I wish that more people were willing to turn down upfront money in exchange for doing things that are more original. Turning down a seven-figure check has a ripple effect on the budget, which has a ripple effect on the storytelling. The higher the budget gets, the fewer storytelling risks you're able to take.
Jason Blum -
We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.
Mary-Kate Olsen -
Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.
Willy Bogner, Jr. -
It feels good, it feels like a badge of honor, honestly. Amongst the artists here, in California, that festival is such a big deal. People live and die for Coachella. So to be a part of it on such a big scale is really flattering, and I feel really lucky to be part of the community.
Zella Day -
The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
Abraham Flexner