Bill Mumy Quotes
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The intelligence community really is a vast bureaucratic entity, and it has been politicized in ways that are not effective for the gathering of intelligence and giving it to senior policymakers.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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The Internet is programmable information. The blockchain is programmable scarcity.
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There is something about my aura or essence, or whatever, that draws the ex-wife characters to me. I don't seek them out, but people tend to think of me for that particular archetype, or whatever you want to call it, and I don't mind it. I think there is a strength to it.
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I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
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No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities.
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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
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I came to Christ in my early 20s.
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We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
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'Long ago we parted,' said the slight, still man of the Fiia. 'Longer ago we were one. What we are not, they are. What we are, they are not. Think of the sunlight and the grass and the trees that bear fruit, Semley; think that not all roads that lead down lead up as well.'
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It’s very nearly 1989 but it’s midnight in the Dark Ages just the thickness of a book away, the thickness of a skull away; just the turn of a page away.
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A common and not necessarily apocryphal example portrays a solo practitioner starved for business in a small town. A second lawyer then arrives, and they both prosper.
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Sometimes, the thing that ties you down sets you free.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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… the Union can grow powerful only by fostering the manufacturing interest. This, Sir, I think the true American political economy.
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The people who lost the elections do not want to admit that they really lost, that the one who won was closer to the people and better understood what ordinary voters want. They are absolutely reluctant to admit this, and prefer deluding themselves and others into thinking it was not their fault, that their policy was correct, they did all the right things, but someone from the outside thwarted them. But it was not so. They just lost and they have to admit it.
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Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
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I was doing Babylon 5 season two and I was in all 22 episodes of that.
