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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The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.
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I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill.
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You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
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We all studied math, but we don't go around spewing numbers. Religion should be used in the appropriate way.
