Dave Parnas Quotes
My judgment is that research in 'Star Wars' is going to fail, and I believe this so strongly that I'm willing to stake my professional reputation on this. I don't believe anybody is going to build this thing.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.
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How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
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It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.
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The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can't succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that's a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.
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Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better - best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.
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Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.
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My judgment is that research in 'Star Wars' is going to fail, and I believe this so strongly that I'm willing to stake my professional reputation on this. I don't believe anybody is going to build this thing.
