Charles Simonyi Quotes

Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.

Charles Simonyi

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• I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Practice
  • Road
  • Boy

• The title 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is meant to be a deconstruction of a stereotype, and the whole show is about deconstructing the boxes that we're supposed to be put into. We like taking apart the tropes and the stereotypes and explore the nuances, so 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' is a label that we go deep underneath to explore.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Crazy
  • Deep
  • Explore

• First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Fun
  • Best
  • Car

• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Lies

• I have an unfortunate personality.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Funny
  • Personality

• I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Good
  • Feeling

• There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Song

• I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • She
  • Mother
  • Want

• Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Story
  • Just

• I do believe in the separation of church and state. But I don't think separation of church and state means you have to be free from your faith.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Faith

• I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Lost
  • Liberty
  • Blood

• Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Up
  • World
  • Taken

• Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Want

• The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Character
  • Single
  • Progress

• In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Health
  • Married
  • Health care

• I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And it said, 'Thousands of people have discovered the Apple computer.' Thousands of people.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • People
  • Said
  • Apple

• There are a lot of people who don't want things like fashion weeks to happen.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • People
  • Want
  • Fashion

• Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Want
  • Way
  • Communication

• It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Evil

• In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure.

  

  Anna Lindh
  • Important
  • Political
  • Peace

• If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

  

  Paul Ricoeur
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Resurrection

• I look at my little girl and I wonder what she's going to be and what she's going to do and what is it that leads girls certain directions in life. I think a lot of that goes back to what kind of father they had, and so it makes me want to be the best dad I can possibly be.

  

  Jake Owen
  • Life
  • She
  • Father

• The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object.

  

  Erwin Schrodinger
  • Philosophy
  • Attractive
  • Analogies

• Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.

  

  Charles Simonyi