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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There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.
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I like to dress up.
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For me, my films are not like my children. They are like my ex-wife. They gave me so much; I gave them so much; I loved them so much; we part ways, and it's OK, we part ways.
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I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.
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I've seen a lot of miracles, and I have experienced a lot of things with Jesus, but nothing I have ever experienced in my corporate community life with other believers can compare with just me and Him in my kitchen early in the morning before the sun comes up.
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One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.
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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.
