David Packard Quotes
The most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment - how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind.
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.
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Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
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The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.
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The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.
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Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.
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I'm a contemporary playwright in a postmodern world.
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When you're first reading the script and thinking about playing the part, it's slightly daunting. It's easy to question, 'Is an audience going to like me? And is that my job?'
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Straw purchasing is illegal.
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If I'm going to be a mess, I might as well be a hot mess, right?
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The most important question we have to deal with is a combination of population control and the control of our environment - how to utilize the world in as effective a way as we can for the future of mankind.
