Billy Connolly Quotes
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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I'm just attracted to the action element of science fiction. It's great to sit in the editing room with the director and sound engineers and to create the feeling where your heart is racing and you're sitting at the edge of your seat and you find yourself holding your breath.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
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I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
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In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.
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I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.
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Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
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Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.
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It has nothing to do with dinosaurs. Good taste doesn't go out of style
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8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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This is exactly how minds are opened: through honest, frank dialogue. Tears may be shed, but not blood.
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People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share.
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Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings! What warmth and beauty they have! They seem to be echoes of old songs.
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Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.
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I appreciate the past, but I want to make new things. That's the problem with the sack on the back - if you carry it around with you, it's like you get hobbled.
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A university is supposed to be a place where all ideas are discussed.
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I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys...
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
