Charles Kettering Quotes
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.
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I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
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That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.
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I don't claim any great experience or expertise.
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It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
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If there is something magic about the collaborations I have with actors it's because I put the character first.
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The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.
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As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.
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Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
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Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I don't feel like I work. I just do it because I love it and I get paid to do it. I just think: 'What an easy way to earn a living.'
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India is a country of empty words, not action. Only repeating, 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' won't help. Learn to finish the race first in order to finish first.
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I enjoy talking to groups who are interested in the writing process or the industry. I never teach - because truthfully, I don't know how it all works; it just does. Sort of magic-like. But I love to share my experiences and perspectives.
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'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.
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I'm drowning my brother drowning.
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Books about technology start-ups have a pattern. First, there's the grand vision of the founders, then the heroic journey of producing new worlds from all-night coding and caffeine abuse, and finally, the grand finale: immense wealth and secular sainthood. Let's call it the Jobs Narrative.
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Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
