David Pleat Quotes
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
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I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
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It's funny the things the Internet likes to proclaim.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
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...the dreams of the head ended up beneath the feet.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.
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When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.
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Preki quite literally only has the one foot
