David Pogue Quotes
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Recognising that the future growth of India will depend on greater skill development, the National Policy for Skill Development aims to create a skilled workforce of 500 million by 2022.
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As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.
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We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
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I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
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The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.
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My pledge is to be part of the solution to focus on governing, to put my experience to work to help solve the very serious issues we're facing in this country.
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When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.
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One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India.
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A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.
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Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's 'Jupiter Symphony' is sublime and beautiful?' There are all sorts of things which come at a more lowly level than that - 'How do I know that two plus two equals four?' There are different layers, different types of knowing.
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There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.
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I'm constantly preparing. Material hits me; I'm always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.
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You say that faith is a gift; this is perhaps the most correct thing that can be said about it.
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To all of you who served in Iraq, we saw your heroism in pushing out a dictator whose brutality must be condemned, never praised. In defeating an insurgency. In giving the Iraqi people a chance. And no matter what has happened since, your valor in the deserts, in fierce urban combat, will be honored in the annals of military history.
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You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it.
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My father gave me an old Olympia portable when I was in fourth grade. Our ancestors came from Ireland. Our family stories of immigration helped me understand more about my characters in 'The Lemon Orchard.'
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A disruptive innovation is a technologically simple innovation in the form of a product, service, or business model that takes root in a tier of the market that is unattractive to the established leaders in an industry.
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If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.
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Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
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There are some things you can't learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student.
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I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.
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I try not to be protected. Because I feel like you can become a little bit of a robot. That's not who I am. And I don't want to be monotone. It's important to be yourself, whatever the cost.
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I've got thick skin.
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Five billion dollars a year spent on ringtones? What the?
