David J. C. MacKay Quotes
The discussion about energy options tends to be an intensely emotional, polarised, mistrustful, and destructive one. Every option is strongly opposed: the public seem to be anti-wind, anti-coal, anti-waste-to-energy, anti-tidal-barrages, anti-carbon-tax, and anti-nuclear.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.
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The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
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I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
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Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though she were still in love.
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I just sort of grew up with music always in the background like a soundtrack. And it really hit me hard when The Beatles came along, like so many people. That got me started digging back further to Chuck Berry.
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Every time I look into his eyes I just want to take the ice cream or whatever I've got in my hand and rub it into his face. That's how much I like him.
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We don't need more stuff, we need more humanity.
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The discussion about energy options tends to be an intensely emotional, polarised, mistrustful, and destructive one. Every option is strongly opposed: the public seem to be anti-wind, anti-coal, anti-waste-to-energy, anti-tidal-barrages, anti-carbon-tax, and anti-nuclear.
