Chris Ofili Quotes
We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.
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To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?
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I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.
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My son will be an American, but I remain French.
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And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.
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There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
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Whether you're a government entity, a large enterprise, or a startup, a true digital transformation takes advantage of technology to focus on the customer, automates work that does not need manual interference, and unleashes your people to truly make decisions that change the path of your company.
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Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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I loved all of the 'Zenon' movies. Those were my jam mostly because of the fashion. I loved something about the space buns and the weird neon colors. I couldn't just wear that in real life because people would look weirdly at me, but maybe at a party or something.
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I don't know if we're doing the optimal things that we can to try and connect different people on the planet with different points of view and not be so angry at each other.
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I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.
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Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death-with its draconian curtailment of property and voting rights-will become the biggest civil rights issue of all.
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I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.
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Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.
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We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.
