Charles Platt Quotes
When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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We shred every day.
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For me, it's better to live without looking over your shoulder, worrying about who is controlling your phone, maybe poisoning your food.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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We were hoping to initiate a conversation with them that would lead to an agreed-upon schedule.
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Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.
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I wanted to be a novelist for so long.
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I have fond memories of my kabaddi exploits at Lawrence School. I also enjoyed tennis and swimming.
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I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.
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When the International Space Station is finally launched, it will be fitted with special nickel-hydrogen batteries weighing a total of several tons, with a lifetime of just five years, requiring spares to be brought up from Earth at literally astronomical expense.
