Chauncey Billups Quotes
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Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
J. G. Ballard
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
J. R. Moehringer
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mahatma Gandhi
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
Marc Andreesen
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
Ian Mckellen
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
Sam Mendes
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Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.
Barack Obama
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If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.
M. J. Rose
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My favorite outfit is baggy black corduroy pants and a baggy T-shirt.
Cameron Russell
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I think of myself as an assistant storyteller.
Harrison Ford
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Conceptually, we believe that embedded mining will ultimately establish bitcoin as a fundamental system resource on par with CPU, bandwidth, hard drive space, and RAM.
Balaji S. Srinivasan
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When people hear the term 'political prisoner,' especially on the Left, it becomes a kind of abstraction. Folks are aware of injustice, and they're aware that there are folks in prison who are in prison, you know, largely because of their activism.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.
John Lancaster Spalding
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For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, How fine, how blest a thing is work! For work does good when reasons fail.
Jean Ingelow
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There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.
Euripides
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I am very much aware of my own double self. The well-known one is very under control; everything is planned and very secure. The unknown one can be very unpleasant. I think this side is responsible for all the creative work - he is in touch with the child. He is not rational; he is impulsive and extremely emotional.
Ingmar Bergman
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There is no effective difference between guessing a variable that is not random, but for which information is partial or deficient (...), and a random one (...). In this sense, guessing (what I don't know, but what someone else may know) and predicting (what has not taken place yet) are the same thing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Everybody has their own desires.
Chauncey Billups
