Karl Iagnemma Quotes
In Singapore, drivers generally obey the rules, but the attitude around pedestrians is actually quite different. It's culturally different. People drive safely, but it's not the same deference shown to pedestrians.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
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There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one of these guys that does the 15-20 minute nap. I don't play those games. I'm, like, an hour minimum. I'm not gonna lay down unless I know I have at least an hour.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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Success breeds inequality, and you don't want to choke off success.
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Music is a talent given to me by God. A medium and a platform and a way to spread a message of righteousness... a message of love, a message of unity.
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So many artists say they're not aware of audience. For me is unbelievable.
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I've always felt like an alien trapped in a human form. We all do at some time or other; for me it's a permanent state, and I'm still unsure if Earth is a penance or a reward.
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Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
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In Singapore, drivers generally obey the rules, but the attitude around pedestrians is actually quite different. It's culturally different. People drive safely, but it's not the same deference shown to pedestrians.
