Ellen Ullman Quotes
'We build our computers the way we build our cities-over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.'
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.
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I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.
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The second book was probably the result of the relationship I was in at the time. We were only going to be compatible for a minute, and I think we both knew it. It's like how you can be a different person on vacation, but you know all along you're just visiting that mindset.
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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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When people consume, they want more. Then they choose the best, and you suddenly get innovation coming in. Now combine that with desperation and people wanting to get a better life: you have a potent combination for innovation.
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'We build our computers the way we build our cities-over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.'
