Idris Elba Quotes
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Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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I like a man with some extra padding.
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In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.
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The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
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If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
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I've met some incredible people who I really admire.
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Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.
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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
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This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in.
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My father always told me that. "Nobody knows anything, so don't listen to anyone else."
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A key characteristic of the engineering culture is that the individual engineer’s commitment is to technical challenge rather than to a given company. There is no intrinsic loyalty to an employer as such. An employer is good only for providing the sandbox in which to play. If there is no challenge or if resources fail to be provided, the engineer will seek employment elsewhere. In the engineering culture, people, organization, and bureaucracy are constraints to be overcome. In the ideal organization everything is automated so that people cannot screw it up. There is a joke that says it all. A plant is being managed by one man and one dog. It is the job of the man to feed the dog, and it is the job of the dog to keep the man from touching the equipment. Or, as two Boeing engineers were overheard to say during a landing at Seattle, “What a waste it is to have those people in the cockpit when the plane could land itself perfectly well.” Just as there is no loyalty to an employer, there is no loyalty to the customer. As we will see later, if trade-offs had to be made between building the next generation of “fun” computers and meeting the needs of “dumb” customers who wanted turnkey products, the engineers at DEC always opted for technological advancement and paid attention only to those customers who provided a technical challenge.
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
