David R. Ellis Quotes
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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Anything that anybody wants to give me is great! I've had folk songs, heavy metal songs, jewellery... I would never call anything any fan gives me weird, as it's how people express what they like about the books, what it means to them, and that's a wonderful thing.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend culture, unfortunately, and I had to deal with them wherever I went. I knew how to defend myself. But I didn't know how to fight.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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My favourite moments at Dreamforce are when people come up and thank me randomly. It's a selfish time for me, as I get lots of positive feedback.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I didn't have any problem bonding with Honey, but I was plagued with insecurities about my ability to bring up my baby.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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We have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it.
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The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's existence. ...eventually a cybernetically minded twenty-first century version of Kant will appear in order to present a tedious 'proof' that such adventures are futile.
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The law is immoral.
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President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how.
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I have people ask me if I'm going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, 'I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door.' I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation.
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Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
