Bill Le Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.
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I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, "Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos." They funnel me through, "Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?"
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Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.
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People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.
