Bill Dedman Quotes
The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
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I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
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We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
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One of the benefits of doing low-budget movies is you don't have to release them wide to recoup. You can release it in a smaller way, make your money back, and keep going.
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Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.
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I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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It wasn't easy in the 1970s when I initially started on my mission - to take yoga to the world. Nobody knew what it was in Japan. When I met Bill Clinton for the first time, he asked me if it was a form of yogurt that you eat! But I kept my faith and never gave up on my quest.
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The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.
