Mark Walport Quotes
A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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Zhvania was the general secretary of the organisation which I founded, the Citizens' Union. It was the biggest organisation and came first in all elections, and Zhvania was the leader.
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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
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What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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To me, it's really not about how I look - it's about who I can be. It is my job to bring the character to life and my duty to fit into the jigsaw in that story.
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Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
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I'm pretty sure the last time any anchor could honestly ignore ratings was well before I was born.
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I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
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I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
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At every word a reputation dies.
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Message on the Golden Record of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched into space 5 September 1977, as quoted at 'Howdy, Strangers' at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory News (19 August 2002)
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I think that the practice of religion allows one to discover emotional and psychological truth of a kind not available in the secular world.
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The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.
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They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
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In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which the Romans had spread through Europe, disappeared. Not only the arts of elegance, which minister to luxury, and re supported by it, but many of the useful arts, without which life can scarcely be contemplated as comfortable, were neglected or lost.
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First of all, I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums, songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums, and they were all very successful.
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I really did start a whole way of thinking about musical theater.
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Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response
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A computer, by definition, cannot be held accountable for anything because there is no mechanism to hold it to account, short of turning off the electricity supply or destroying the hardware. Only humans can be accountable.
