Charles Leadbeater Quotes
If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I avoided as much work as possible in the classroom, but did all the work possible on the ball field.
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The traditional thinking has been that the stock market likes certainty.
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I understand basketball is not my entire life. It's only a part of my life. And there are a lot of other things that interest me a great deal ... other goals to seek, and this is how I have balance in life.
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I don't know if fame will come.
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When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.
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If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.
