David Millar Quotes
It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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I love London, I love the British people.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'
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Groupon's model: Getting the group discount rate first, finding the group second. The daily deal goes out and, if a minimum number of people sign up, they can all share in the group rate. Vendor gets customers, customers get a discount, Groupon gets a cut.
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
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People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
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I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
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We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
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My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.
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This thing called nationalism is a treasure that a country uses to try to develop and a nationality uses to try to survive. China has lost this treasure.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
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You don't see yourself in the same way other people see you.
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It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.
